Orson Scott Card - Love Quotes

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

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For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

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The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

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Black with hate, said Becca. You are gathering your people with hate.
Can you imagine conducting a war with love? asked Ta-Kumsaw.
That's a reason to refuse to make war at all, she said gently.

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How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.

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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

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Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

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Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.

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He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?

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Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

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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.

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So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said...

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Taleswapper looked at Miller.
I'm nothing, he said.
A Christian isn't nothing, said Taleswapper.
I'm no Christian, either.
Ah, said Taleswapper. A Deist, then, like Tom Jefferson. The children murmured at his mention of the great man's name.
Taleswapper, I'm a father who loves his children, a husband who loves his wife, a farmer who pays his debts, and a miller without a millstone.

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I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

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Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

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Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn't beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.

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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true — but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me — your life, your view of life — is the lie.

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I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away—

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I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door,
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.

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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.

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