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Heartfire

Heartfire

Heartfire is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the fifth book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son. Heartfire was nominated for the Locus Award in 1999.


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“Are you all right, sir?”

Orson Scott Card book Heartfire

asked Hezekiah.
“Just fighting over old battles in my mind,” said John. “It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

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“I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.”

Orson Scott Card book Heartfire

“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 11.

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