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“Zymas li lasciò scegliere liberamente, ma tutti e cinquecento lo seguirono verso Traffing, lasciandosi alle spalle gli attoniti abitanti del villaggio. Non disse loro chi intendeva mettere al posto del Re. Il sogno aveva detto Palicrovol, ma Zymas intendeva vedere personalmente l'uomo, prima di aiutarlo a ribellarsi. I sogni vengono quando uno ha gli occhi chiusi, ma Zymas agiva solo con gli occhi aperti”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 8

“Ah, Palicrovol, quando imparerai che la misericordia è buona quanto la persona a cui essa viene fatta? Hai risparmiato Asineth, che avrebbe dovuto morire; ora non risparmierai Orem Fianchi-Magri, chiamato Banningside, il cui buon cuore dovrebbe nascere centomila volte sulla terra. Sei come Asineth? Imparerai tutte le tue lezioni al contrario?”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 24

“Il suo amore per la teatralità lo indusse quasi a rispondere con qualche eroico epigramma; ma aveva appreso fin da giovane che la teatralità non sostituiva una sicura vittoria. Perciò le morse il cuore con i denti della sua mano sinistra, per abbatterla subito con un colpo magico. Anche se avesse resistito, sarebbe stata troppo scossa per combatterlo, dopo.”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, pp. 30-31

“Donnola — disse la Regina Bella — tu sai ora come sono stata servita. Dimmi… è giusta la mia vendetta?
— Ti è stato fatto un torto — disse la Principessa dei Fiori.
— È giusta la mia vendetta?
— Sei giusta a vendicarti.
— Ma la mia vendetta è giusta? — Bella sorrise, come la benedizione di un santo.
— Solo se ti vendichi di coloro che ti hanno fatto del male, e solo se la tua vendetta è uguale al torto subito.
— Suvvia, ho sentito dire che posso contare su Donnola Bocca-di-Verità per sentire il vero. Te lo chiedo per la quarta volta… sono giusta?
— No — disse la Principessa dei Fiori.
— Bene — disse Bella.”

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Sono stata trattata ingiustamente, e a meno che la mia vendetta non sia mostruosamente ingiusta, non sarò soddisfatta. (p. 36-37)
I giorni del cervo

“Allora scappò dal droghiere, stringendo in mano le sue poche monete di rame. Ma paura o non paura, voleva essere sicuro; così si fermò poco lontano, a guardare: e proprio come aveva pensato, Glasin riuscì a far stare tutta la sua mercanzia nel carretto, a parte la roba marcia. E per proteggere del cibo marcio, Orem avrebbe dovuto aspettare tutto il giorno, senza essere pagato. Non c'era onore a Inwit, neanche un briciolo, e questo lo rese più timoroso che mai della punta del pugnale che gli era stata puntata contro la pancia. Un pugnale aveva solo una punta, ma un traditore colpisce da qualsiasi parte, dicevano, e solo adesso Orem capiva quanto fosse vero”

Orson Scott Card

Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 69

Orson Scott Card: Frasi in inglese

“You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along—you want there to be some room for it to fit in.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 5 “Crystal Ball” (p. 98).

“Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” when the saying should have been, “Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 17.

“Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“You must be a prophet right enough,” said Alvin Junior, “cause I can’t understand a thing you said.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

“A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 8.

“Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“In the absence of understanding, that was a good a reason as any for living together and making babies and raising them up and throwing them out of the house and then going through the long slow decline together until one of them died and left the other alone again, understanding as little as ever about what their spouses really wanted, who they really were. Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 9.

“It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 3.

“I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.”

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Orson Scott Card

Treason (1988)

“Taleswapper looked at Miller.
“I'm nothing,” he said.
“A Christian isn’t nothing,” said Taleswapper.
“I'm no Christian, either.”
“Ah,” said Taleswapper. “A Deist, then, like Tom Jefferson.” The children murmured at his mention of the great man’s name.
“Taleswapper, I'm a father who loves his children, a husband who loves his wife, a farmer who pays his debts, and a miller without a millstone.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 9.

“Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 1.

“The desire to force others to bend or break to her will was always there, usually hidden deeply enough that she could forget she had that wish within her, but occasionally surfacing to dangle the ripe fruit of power just out of her reach. She knew, as few others did, that the power to coerce depended entirely on the fear or weakness of other human beings. It was possible to use coercion, yes, but in the end you found yourself surrounded only by the weak and fearful, with all those of courage and strength arrayed against you.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 6.

““Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.”
“Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 48).

“At night in his own bed, Alvin listened to the distant greensong, still warm and beautiful, still bright and hopeful even though the forest was getting so sparse, even though the future was so dim. Cause there’s no fear of future in the song of life, just the ever-joyful present moment. That’s all I want right now, thought Alvin. The present moment, which is good enough.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 19 (closing words).

“Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I have no way of knowing that your story is not true — but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me — your life, your view of life — is the lie.”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

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