4 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Performance

Orson Scott Card quotes on performance

32. Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

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

622. She got out of the car in a smooth motion that [he] found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it

683. My life is still good because you're in it. Everything good in my life comes from you. Step shook his head. He knew she meant it, but in fact he knew that it wasn't true. Even the goof she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him. He had known that she could only be happy with a husband who was good in certain distinct ways.... She never realized that it was a sacrifice he was making out of love for her, in order to be part of her. She thought it was his own desire, and she loved him for it. But what she was really loving was herself, reflected back at her