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Quotes from Hart's Hope — Orson Scott Card

born 1951 United States

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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

Hart's Hope (1983)

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

Hart's Hope (1983)

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

Hart's Hope (1983)

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

Hart's Hope (1983)

You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.

Hart's Hope (1983)

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

Hart's Hope (1983)

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.

Hart's Hope (1983)

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.

Hart's Hope (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Orson Scott Card (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.