“Hey, you’re getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you.”

—  Orson Scott Card

“Good thing, ’cause I got no plan to eat less.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 3 “Fever” (p. 48).

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