Carolina QuotesWhen he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- Hart's Hope (1983)
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- 1983
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“When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rat…” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E8546C3DFC. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e8546c3dfc
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