Carolina QuotesAnd 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.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter 9.
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- Prentice Alvin (1989)
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- 1989
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