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Quotes from Prentice Alvin — Orson Scott Card

born 1951 United States

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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

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

Prentice Alvin (1989)

"'A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'" Peggy quoted. "'Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.'"

Prentice Alvin (1989)

Didn't he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?

Prentice Alvin (1989)

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

Prentice Alvin (1989)

You can't change what you don't understand.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

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.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he'd stay stupid.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn't need no philosopher to tell him that.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

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.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

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