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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”

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Origine: I giorni del cervo, p. 69

Orson Scott Card: Frasi in inglese

““Did they program brattiness into you?”
“That’s a trait I developed for myself,” she said. “Do you like it?””

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 202
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then… Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.”

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Treason (1988)

“Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,” said Tenkswa-Tawa. “That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 16 “Labor” (p. 307).

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“That reminded John Paul of what Andrew had said when he was teaching him to play chess. “You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it’s all going to lead.” John Paul understood the principle as soon as Andrew explained it. But he stopped playing chess anyway, because he didn’t care what happened to little plastic figures on a board of sixty-four squares.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 53
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it’s always pleasantly.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.

“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.”

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Treason (1988)

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.

“More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 12.

“She did love him, you know… It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.”

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

“The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,” said Papa Moose, “now that snakes can’t talk.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 41).

“He’s young,” she said.
“We’ve all been guilty of that sin,” said Alvin. “And some never get over it.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 9 “Expeditions” (p. 175).

“I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed — I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)

“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.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.”

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

“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.”

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Treason (1988)

“Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“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.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

“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.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 2.

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