Orson Scott Card Quotes on Intent

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  1. That's me insane to the root Not insane. Driven by a sense of purpose that is frightening

  2. When you strike, your aim will be deadly. These people came for entertainment, but they're your targets; you will pierce them to the hearts.

  3. No matter what they say they all intend to live Except the suicides? They intended to live, too. Suicide is a desperate attempt to get rid of unbearable agony.

  4. Either she was a perfect actress or she was oblivious.

  5. He fears his own murderous heart so much that he won't let himself think of his whole plan openly

  6. Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice

  7. Am I a liar, or is he mistaken? I am the only fit judge of what is in my heart, I think

  8. What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?

  9. She knew exactly what she had done to him. And yet she couldn't quite believe that she was jerking him around

  10. How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?

  11. You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them

  12. Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived

  13. Was he simply too tired to care what he said?

  14. Was this a flirtatious conversation for it's own sake? Or did he unconsciously mean something by it?

  15. Doon is the devil, isn't he? Was. He's dead now. At least, he promised me that he'd die But was he? The devil? Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of god. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was. But he meant well

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