Orson Scott Card - Love Quotes

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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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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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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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Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.

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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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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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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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She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.

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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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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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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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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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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

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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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