Orson Quotes

“If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."

Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.

"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"

No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“Did Berg teach you?' Orson says.
'No,' I say. He never taught me anything but fear.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, The Keep of Ages

“I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.”
― Orson Scott Card

“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware