Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
Orson Scott CardThis is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
Orson Scott CardFor it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
Orson Scott CardQuim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.
Orson Scott Card