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"The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop,but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway."

"Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time."

"What's going on?" I asked when he finished."I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait.""Great. My favorite thing to do."

"When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic."

"A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again."
Explore more quotes by Orson Scott Card

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
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