Orson Scott Card

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

- Orson Scott Card

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

- Orson Scott Card

"In that deep place she knew that it was all her fault, that evil arose out of the dark shadows of her heart and seeped into the world poisoning everything. She carried the beast inside her heart, the devourer of happiness... No, no, it's not true, she said silently...God does not want my death, not by my own hand, never by my own hand...It wouldn't help anyone. Wouldn't help, would only hurt. Wouldn't help, would only..."

- Orson Scott Card

"Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven."

- Orson Scott Card