Carolina QuotesNot that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Memory Of Earth (1992)
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- 1992
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