Orson Scott Card citations Page 20

“Je n’en mourus pas. Mais quand ma voix se tut et de vis la terre refermée, je voulus la refaire surgir du néant, rappeler à la vie le hideux vieillard, permettre à son existence de se poursuivre même si son être ne pouvais pas vivre. Il méritait de mourir, sauf que rien ne mérite la mort, et j’aurais pu devenir fou en cet instant, partagé entre le besoin de ramener à la vie l’homme et la maison, et la certitude que leur destruction était nécessaire.”

It's life. It hurts, it's dirty, but it's so good.
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Les enfants de l'Esprit, 2000

“Il eut un surprenant sourire, puis il me prit dans ses bras et me dit : « Je ne pensais que tu m’avais trahi la dernière fois que tu as parti. Je ne comprenais pas, Lanik. Je pensais que si je te faisais confiance, cela signifie que tu agirais toujours comme je le voulais…”

A Planet Called Treason

“Un décor rustique évoque toujours la fantasy; pour évoquer la science-fiction, il faut des panneaux de métal et du plastique. Il faut des boulons.”

A Planet Called Treason

Orson Scott Card Citations

“Lanik :
- Je suis en train de perdre Saranna.
L'Homee-qui-sais-tout :
- C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre.”

Comment écrire de la fantasy et de la science-fiction

“La vie et encore assez douce pour nous… même si nous savons que cela ne tardera pas. Et cela aussi sera un bien. Même la mort sera un bien, je pense, non parce qu’elle mettra fin aux anciennes amertumes, mais parce qu’à mon avis elle sera la dernière des aigres saveurs qui m’ont signalé que j’étais en vie.
Par-dessous toutes choses je continue d’entendre le cri de la terre, mais il n’affecte plus ce que je vois et ce que je fais. Au contraire, il rehausse mes plaisirs, car le lever du soleil est plus éclatant à couse des sombres gouffres au fond de moi, et la sourire de Saranna est plus chaleureux à cause de la cruauté que j’ai connue, et les soins que je prodigue aux gens et aux animaux ont plus de valeur à cause des tueries que j’ai commises.”

A Planet Called Treason

“Mais peu importe qu’il y ait ou non des grands desseins extérieurs à moi. Mon seul espoir a été ceci : discerner ce qui pouvait être accompli, croire que c’était possible, et ensuite mettre tout en œuvre pour exécuter, à n’importe quel prix. Et quand une vie s’achève comme la mienne s’achèvera, nul ne peut me persuader que le prix ne valait pas d’être payé en échange de ce que j’ai reçu”

A Planet Called Treason

“She can’t help her red skin, and she isn’t heathen. In fact, she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.”

A Planet Called Treason

Orson Scott Card: Citations en anglais

“He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.”

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 3.

“He was only six, but he already knew that he hated it when he had to do what other people wanted, even when he knew that they were wrong. He didn’t want to be a soldier. He didn’t want to kill. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to obey stupid people.”

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.”

Orson Scott Card livre Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!”

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“She grunted. “Nothing unusual?”
“That’s right.”
“Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.””

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.”

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 6.

“See the Wikipedia article on The Tales of Alvin Maker for more information..”

“Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 48).

“See the Wikipedia article on Homecoming Saga for more information..”

The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Did they program brattiness into you?”

Homecoming saga

“Are you all right, sir?”

Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

“That’s a trait I developed for myself,” she said. “Do you like it?”
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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.”

Orson Scott Card livre Heartfire

asked Hezekiah.
“Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

Orson Scott Card livre Heartfire

“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“You're such a liar.”

“I want to know how many years I got.”

Orson Scott Card Alvin Journeyman

“But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend.
“I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 10.

“You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.”

Orson Scott Card livre Red Prophet

“Many,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.