“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

—  Orson Scott Card, book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

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