Carolina QuotesThe billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 5.
- work
- Seventh Son (1987)
- year
- 1987
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