Orson Scott Card Quotes on Youth
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We don't think like other children, do we...? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children.
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You were reckless, brilliant and young.
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Brilliant young people who were nevertheless silly with love-or youth, as if it made a difference.
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[He] was young, too young to see the consequences of his actions, too young to contain his feelings.
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You're still young so you still think the whole universe revolves around you. But the fact is that it doesn't
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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?
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The smooth, white skin of a boy who had never worked or fought in his life, and yet a posture of utter boldness, as if he had never met an equal, let alone a superior
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He is so young He was never young
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Savanna had said, 'Come back soon. Come back while you're still young enough to want me. For I'm going to be young forever' I wasn't young anymore, not by any definition of the word. But I wanted her. Perhaps I only wanted the innocence of the children we had been, making love beside the river, oblivious to the pain that could and surely would come to them. Still, I wanted her more than I wanted anyone else in the world, not because my passion was so overwhelming, but because all the other things I wanted were either painfully accomplished or so hopeless that I had given up on them. Only she was left
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It's in the nature of young men to be lonely. Did you think you were unique?
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You need to remember that what you're dealing with here is the ideas I had when I was 16 that I'm putting in my fiction now.