Carolina QuotesShow 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.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Ships Of Earth (1994)
- year
- 1994
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“Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me.…” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-109C6AD73A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/109c6ad73a
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