“We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.”

— Orson Scott Card , book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

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American science fiction novelist 1951

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