Orson Scott Card, Speaker For The Dead Quotes

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.