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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

““What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?”
“It has problems, I admit.””

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

“The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Law can change how people behave when others are watching — that's all.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

““Part of the test,” said Sillain, “is seeing how well you obey orders.”
“Then I fail,” said John Paul.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 33
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy

“Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 10.

“God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.”

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Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

““This is today’s puzzle,” he said. “If the act of denial can be taken as proof of the crime, how can an innocent man defend himself?”
The tithingmen caught him by the arms. “Come along now, Mr. Emerson, and don’t go trying any philosophy on us.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t dream of it,” said Waldo. “Philosophy would be wasted against such sturdy-headed men as you.”
“Glad you know it,” said the tithingman proudly. “Wouldn’t want you thinking we weren’t true Christians.””

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

“I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.”

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Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

“They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“You are not what you seem.
So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?”

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Treason (1988)

“I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.”

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

“You can afford me,” said Jane. “I’m cheap and you’re rich.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

Page 198
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

“Only a fool can't be fooled.”

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Orson Scott Card Songmaster

Songmaster (1979)

“I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.”

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Treason (1988)

“May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.”

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Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.”

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Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“This is what I want to do forever, each one thought. Rise in the morning, come to the mill, and work all day with him beside me. Never mind that the wish was impossible. Never mind that they might never see each other again, once the boy left for his apprenticeship back in the place of his birth. That only added to the sweetness of the moment, which would soon become a memory, would soon become a dream.”

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

“A man who can’t read only knows what other folks tell him.”

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Orson Scott Card

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

“Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don’t put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.”

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

“Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.”

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Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.”

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

““A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.”
“Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.”
“Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.””

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 4 “La Tia” (p. 74).

“They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“She knew that her feelings toward Bean were completely different. No such dreams and fantasies. Just a sense of complete acceptance. She belonged with Bean, not the way that a wife belonged with a husband or, God forbid, a girlfriend with a boyfriend, but rather way the left hand belonged to the right. They simply fit. Nothing exciting about it, nothing to write home about. But it could be counted on.”

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Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy

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

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