Quote

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

Orson Scott Card

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Richland
Washington
Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
Hurt
Toes
Feeling
Delicious
Pain
Hurts
Feelings
Sand
Feels
Dirty
Friction
Good
Tiny
Silicon
Life
Flesh
Chips
Worked
Tender

More quotes by Orson Scott Card

Image
Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.
Orson Scott Card
Image
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.
Orson Scott Card
Image
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
Orson Scott Card
Image
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
Orson Scott Card
Image
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
Orson Scott Card
Image
The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.
Orson Scott Card
Image
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card
Image
If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
Orson Scott Card
Image
You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.
Orson Scott Card
Image
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
Orson Scott Card
Image
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
Orson Scott Card
Image
History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
Orson Scott Card
Image
I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Orson Scott Card
Image
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
Orson Scott Card
Image
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
Orson Scott Card
Image
America is an empire that does not wish to be one we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
Orson Scott Card