“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

— Orson Scott Card , book Pathfinder

Source: Pathfinder

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American science fiction novelist 1951

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