10 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Rejection

Orson Scott Card quotes on rejection

90. They are too cruel a god for me to worship anymore

231. You imagine that I love you, but I do not. I don't love anyone.

268. I never wanted you here, because you're too dangerous

559. When he offered to annul the marriage, he realized now, he had been half-hoping that she'd refuse, that she'd insist that she wanted to be his wife. Instead, he had provoked this outburst, in which she had exposed the full measure of her contempt for him

564. If he wants you, then I don't want him. The man I loved wouldn't have gotten married without bothering to break off his previous engagement. So whatever you've got there with his arm attached to your back. It's not a man I ever knew or ever wanted. Somebody else, somebody faithless. I deserve better. So save your tears for yourself. Bitch

569. All I could think of was how close I came to losing you not close enough. How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

633. The kind of man that's the one kind worth loving, when I tell him that story, he'll never be able to love me

716. Why can you be so deeply understanding of her, and so completely incapable of understanding me? ... You never needed me the was [she] needs me. You never needed anybody. If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth. Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.

936. Of course she wasn't going to call, he knew that.

1023. I've been wounded and you're using the bloody place to teach me, and if that's what gods are supposed to do, then I wish there were no gods at all