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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

“Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 10.

“It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 7.

“"Women's intuition" wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.”

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

“Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause—and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause—one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 56).

“I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.”

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Treason (1988)

“Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

“There were always people searching for the Unmaker, for some awful destructive power outside themselves. Poor fools, they always thought that Destruction was merely destruction, they were using it and when they were done with it, they’d set to building. But you don’t build on a foundation of destruction. That’s the dark secret of the Unmaker, Alvin thought. Once he sets you to tearing down, it’s hard to get back to building, hard to get your own self back. The digger wears out the ground and the spade. And once you let yourself be a tool in the Unmaker’s hand, he’ll wear you out, he’ll tear you down, he’ll dull you and hole you and all the time you’ll be thining you’re so sharp and fine and bright and whole, and you never go till he lets go of you, lets you drop and fall. What’s that clatter? Why, that was me. That was me, sounding like a wore-out tool. What you leaving me for? I still got use left in me?
But you don’t, not when the Unmaker’s got you.”

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

“War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 2.

“He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.”

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

“What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?”

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Orson Scott Card libro Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 11.

“I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it’s occupied by someone with a good heart.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.

“I'm losing Savanna.
That's good. No one should own someone else.”

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Treason (1988)

“Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.”

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Treason (1988)

“Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.”

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Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

“Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts… And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“How short life is for fools.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 8 “Plans” (p. 159).

“He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Stop threatening me… I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.”

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Homecoming saga, The Call Of Earth (1992)

“Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.

“You speak metaphorically, I hope,” said Peggy.
“I hope not,” said Becca. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

“We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.”

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Orson Scott Card libro Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Perhaps you don’t desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.

“Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?”

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Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”

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Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.

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