Orson Scott Card Quotes on Value

10 quotes

  1. Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

  2. I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

  3. Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?

  4. But charm, intelligence, and good looks, did they add up to love?

  5. Do you begrudge her this: that once in her life she had a man who loved her with his whole heart, if only for that moment?

  6. I might have been on the outside looking in; at the bottom looking up. Now I'm on the outside, all right, but above, looking down. I don't need anything these people have to offer. What I need, they don't even care about. Some of them probably even have it, and are wasting it, losing it.

  7. Please, someday if I'm real good, can't I be a real girl?

  8. I love only life. But life can only continue in the face of death.

  9. She is god, not you She was the least of the gods, if you want to call them that. But then, at the end she was the greatest

  10. Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

    #1104 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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