Carolina Quotes“Don’t press her,” said Cooper. “If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.”
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter 5.
- work
- Heartfire (1998)
- year
- 1998
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