I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.
Orson Scott CardThere's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.
Orson Scott CardBut if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagarโor Graff, if it was himโlaunch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important theyโd risk a shuttle and itโs crew just to catch me? I find that quiteโฆ flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
Orson Scott CardIf the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
Orson Scott Card