Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.
Orson Scott CardI think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction
Orson Scott CardI carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
Orson Scott CardAny decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
Orson Scott Card