Orson Scott Card Time Quotations

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.