Off The Balcony » Book Quotes http://www.offthebalcony.com Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:41:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Counting chickens http://www.offthebalcony.com/counting-chickens http://www.offthebalcony.com/counting-chickens#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:07:44 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=170 “People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That’s nothing. We name them.”

-Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/counting-chickens/feed 0 No real differences http://www.offthebalcony.com/no-real-differences http://www.offthebalcony.com/no-real-differences#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:07:01 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=168 “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
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/no-real-differences/feed 0 The fine line of hypocrosy http://www.offthebalcony.com/the-fine-line-of-hypocrosy http://www.offthebalcony.com/the-fine-line-of-hypocrosy#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:06:13 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=166 “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
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/the-fine-line-of-hypocrosy/feed 0 A good man? http://www.offthebalcony.com/a-good-man http://www.offthebalcony.com/a-good-man#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:05:40 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=164 “… 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
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/a-good-man/feed 1 Who we are http://www.offthebalcony.com/who-we-are http://www.offthebalcony.com/who-we-are#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:05:07 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=162 “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
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/who-we-are/feed 0 Identity http://www.offthebalcony.com/identity http://www.offthebalcony.com/identity#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:04:36 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=160 “Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”

-Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/identity/feed 0 That’s all I know http://www.offthebalcony.com/thats-all-i-know-2 http://www.offthebalcony.com/thats-all-i-know-2#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:04:02 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=158 “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
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/thats-all-i-know-2/feed 0 The job called parenting http://www.offthebalcony.com/the-job-called-parenting-2 http://www.offthebalcony.com/the-job-called-parenting-2#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:03:02 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=156 “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
]]> http://www.offthebalcony.com/the-job-called-parenting-2/feed 0 Truth http://www.offthebalcony.com/truth-2 http://www.offthebalcony.com/truth-2#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:02:26 +0000 admin http://www.offthebalcony.com/?p=154 “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
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