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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way. (Orson Scott Card)
Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,” said Tenkswa-Tawa. "That's one of the lies we tell ourselves. View quote
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He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter. View quote
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything. View quote
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She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her. View quote
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around. View quote
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She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give. View quote
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Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell. View quote
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The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,” said Papa Moose, "now that snakes can't talk. View quote
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He's young,” she said. "We've all been guilty of that sin,” said Alvin. "And some never get over it. View quote
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If something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense. (Orson Scott Card)
You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it. View quote
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Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning. View quote
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You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else. View quote
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Don't press her,” said Cooper. "If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don't insist on his saying it. View quote
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You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they'll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don't change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully. View quote
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I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear. View quote
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love. View quote
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I want to know how many years I got.” "Many,” said Ta-Kumsaw. "Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have. View quote
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it? View quote
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There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all. (Orson Scott Card)
The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes. View quote
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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future. View quote
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left? View quote
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst. View quote
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