“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”
Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead
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“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”
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