February 27th, 2009
Counting chickens
“People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That’s nothing. We name them.”
-Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman
Alvin Journeyman
Archive for the ‘Book Quotes’ Category
February 21st, 2009
No real differences
“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
-J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
February 16th, 2009
The fine line of hypocrosy
“Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?”
-Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman
Alvin Journeyman
February 14th, 2009
A good man?
“… if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn’t good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?”
-Orson Scott Card
Enchantment
Enchantment
February 4th, 2009
Who we are
“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
-J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
January 21st, 2009
Identity
“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
-Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game
Ender’s Game
January 12th, 2009
That’s all I know
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all. Time bears it away. And in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness and sometimes we lose them there again.”
“That’s all I know.”
-Steven King
The Green Mile
The Green Mile
January 10th, 2009
The job called parenting
“What I understand now is this: there is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness. And despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even ‘not horrible’ for any particular child.”
“It is a job that simply cannot be done right.”
-Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
Ender in Exile
January 4th, 2009
Truth
“He was going to tell, if not the truth, then at least a true reporting of somebody else’s truth.”
-Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman
Alvin Journeyman
