Lost Boys Quotes

“What I’m telling you is, there’s some people who do things so bad it tears at the fabric of the world, and then there’s some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn.”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys

“No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys

“I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys

“Heck, everything we decide will be wrong," said Step, "because no matter what we do, something bad will happen later. So I refuse to regret any of it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys

“You’re saying Stevie’s problems are because we taught him to believe in Santa Claus?” asked Step, incredulous. “On the contrary. I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed—or forced—to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.” “So Santa Claus is good,” said Step. “Santa Claus is usually not maladaptive,” said Dr. Weeks,”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys

“So he re-entered the prayer that he thought he had closed, and added the phrase that he had deliberately left out when he was on his knees: Thy will be done.”
― Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys