The Last Shadow Quotes

“I believe that fairness is always worth striving for,” said Sprout, “even though it can’t always be achieved.” “And why can’t it always be achieved?” asked Ruqyaq. “Because sometimes there is no fair course of action,” said Sprout, “and sometimes because no one can think of a fair course. But most often because one side or the other, or both, have no desire for fairness. They seek only their own advantage, no matter what it costs the other, and so fairness remains out of reach for them, because they are not reaching for it.”
― Orson Scott Card, The Last Shadow

“Take one idea that you’ve been struggling with, combine it with a completely unrelated idea that you’ve also been working on, and see what comes out of the effort to reconcile both ideas into one coherent story.”
― Orson Scott Card, The Last Shadow

“Everything everybody does is a waste of time, until it isn’t,”
― Orson Scott Card, The Last Shadow