Orson Scott Card · 402 pages
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“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Love is random; fear is inevitable.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
“Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card
Born place: in Richland, Washington, The United States
Born date August 24, 1951
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“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”
― Charles Frazier, quote from Cold Mountain
“––Querida, no pienses en cosas tristes. Tengamos esperanzas en cosas mejores. Animémonos con la idea de que puedo sobrevivirte.”
― Jane Austen, quote from The Complete Novels
“And I remember in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representation… For he argued thus; that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated… …he leaves me worse than in ignorance, for I am led to believe a thing black when it is white, and short when it is long.”
― Jonathan Swift, quote from Gulliver's Travels
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, quote from The Diary of a Young Girl
“How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without mom and dad? How can I leave without Teddy? Or Adam? This is too much. I don’t even understand how it all works, why I’m here in the state that I’m in or how to get out of it if I wanted to. If I were to say, I want to wake up, would I wake up right now? I’ve already tried snapping my heels to find Teddy and tried to beam myself to Hawaii, and that didn’t work. This seems a whole lot more complicated.
But in spite of that, I believe it’s true. I hear the nurse’s words again. I am running the show. Everyone’s waiting on me.
I decide. I know this now.
And this terrifies me more than anything else that has happened today.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from If I Stay
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