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  1. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. "Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.
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  2. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.
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  3. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    What kind of rescue is this, where you toss the prisoner a knife and stand and wait to see what happens?
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  4. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.
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  5. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation.""What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?""An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife."Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked."Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong.Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it."You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly."I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong.
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  6. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
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  7. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.
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  8. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended.I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice."That's nice," she said...
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow Puppets

    It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
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