The Ships of Earth Quotes

“When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.”
― Orson Scott Card, The Ships of Earth

“Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready...”
― Orson Scott Card, The Ships of Earth

“She certainly didn’t have the ability to share her ability with the envious ones—she could only share the products of her ability. They gladly took those, and then resented her for being able to produce them. Most human beings, she concluded long ago, love to worship from afar people with extraordinary ability, but prefer to have their friends be genial incompetents. And, of course, most of them get their preference.”
― Orson Scott Card, The Ships of Earth