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Lost and Found QUOTES

Lost and Found QUOTES

1 " ...Everybody needs rescuing.

Lonely people need rescuing, anyway.

There's nothing but lonely people in this world. Even people who think they're not lonely, they're aching with loneliness or the fear of being lonely. So we saved each other every day for the past couple of months. "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found

2 " We’re Americans,” said Ezekiel. “Nothing is close enough we don’t need a car. "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found

3 " The refreshments leave something to be desired.” “Like what?” asked Banshee. “Refreshments,” said Ezekiel. "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found

4 " From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father. "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found

5 " And why shouldn't a grown man live with his mother? Mothers were a rare and precious commodity and if you had one, why in the world would leave her? "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found

6 " His "place" wasn't to be found geographically...A person's place was made up of people who showed up somewhere regularly enough that you could also show up and count on at least some of them being there. And then you could talk to them and say whatever asinine thing came into your head and even if they ridiculed you for it they did it like friends. "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found

7 " Ezekiel wanted to cry and he wanted to scream. Cry because he couldn't believe how painful all of this must have been, how sad and lonely Beth must have been. And scream because he never had a clue about the deep pain in Beth's life. "

― Orson Scott Card , Lost and Found