Quotes from work
Treasure Box

Treasure Box is the second horror novel by Orson Scott Card. It takes place in modern-day America.

“Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.”

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“I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.”

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“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

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“Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.”

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“I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“All children are manipulators.”

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“Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“[He] wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.”

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“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

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“She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.”

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“Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that [she] was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.”

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“What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.”

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Treasure Box (1996)

“Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!”

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Treasure Box (1996)

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