Carolina QuotesFolks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 2 “Squirrel and Moose” (p. 33).
- work
- The Crystal City (2003)
- year
- 2003
- locator
- p. 33
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