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Adults [are] so strange

— Orson Scott Card

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  3. Any unhappiness that they might harbor in their hearts was kept in check, buried under the hard work that marked the rhythms of their lives…
  4. Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that…
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  6. Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
  7. Maybe he's growing up Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
  8. I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female. Don't you ever tell me…

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  • children
  • adults

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