“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper ”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“If good people weren’t so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
“I’m not a character in one of your novels.” “More’s the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“That mountain can grow awfully heavy sometimes,” he sighed, taking a spear and buckler from Rhuarc. “When do you find a chance to put it down awhile?”
“When you die,” Lan said simply”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Shadow Rising
“في البداية تلتقي بشخص؛ شخص يختلف اختلافًا تامًا عن جميع من حولك من الأشخاص. شخص يرى كل شيء بمنظار مختلف، ويجعلك تُغيّر منظورك، وتلاحظ كل شيء من جديد، من الداخل ومن الخارج؛ ويُخيّل إليك أن بإمكانك الإبقاء على مسافة آمنة بينك وبينه؛ ويُخيّل إليك أنك تستطيع أن تُبحر وتشق طريقك في خضم هذه العاصفة الجميلة، حتى تدرك بغتةً أنه ألقى بك إلى العراء ولا يمكنك أن تتحكم بذلك.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from The Forty Rules of Love
“for no god may undo what another god has done...”
― Ovid, quote from Metamorphoses
“Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.”
― James Patterson, quote from Fang
“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from Cat's Eye
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