“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

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

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