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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

““Are you all right, sir?” asked Hezekiah.
“Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

“I have no secret thoughts… Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them — if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.”

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Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else’s plan?”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 100
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest

“Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,” said Taleswapper. “At least not without good reason.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 15.

“Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“I’m a terrible salesman,” he finally said. “I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 12 “Springfield” (p. 250).

“Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 1 “Nueva Barcelona” (p. 19).

“I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Petra Arkanian Delphiki.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence—what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.

“The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.”

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"Atlantis," from Keeper of Dreams (2008).

“I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.”

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Treason (1988)

“And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 9.

“Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“You think this because you are a nasty person by nature, Calvin, and you don’t understand nice people. To you, the end of existence is to control things, and so you will never build anything, but rather will try to take control of what is already in existence. Your brother, though, is by nature a Maker, as you explain it; therefore he cares nothing about who rules, but only about what exists.”

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

“They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?…And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 15.

“There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992)

“It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 9 “Expeditions” (p. 166).

“The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything—they only desire to exploit it for themselves.”

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

“Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Saints

Saints (1983)

“Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Virlomi.
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)

“To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps… loosen them up.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 17 “Foundation” (p. 334).

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