Victoria Crockett > Victoria's Quotes

“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile

“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...”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets

“And it came down to this: 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. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in the very moment when I love them--"

"You beat them." For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding.

"No, you don't understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don't exist.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon

“We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Darkness bound them closer than light.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“Withholding a decision is a decision.”
― Orson Scott Card

“...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.”
― Anne Brontë

“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall