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Lovelock

Name: Lovelock
Author: Orson Scott Card

Lovelock is a 1994 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd. The novel's eponymous narrator takes his name from James Lovelock, the scientist-inventor who formulated the Gaia Hypothesis, which figures heavily in the book.

“Even the most "Rational" people — the ones who claimed not to have a religion — were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“She did love him, you know… It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“You never needed anybody.
If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.
Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I think if you left grownups to do what they really actually wanted most in the world to do, every single one of them would lie down and take a nap for the rest of their life. I know this because that's what every grownup does as soon as they're alone.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

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