Quotes from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.
Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?"
"You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied.
"I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a couple of expensive looking vases....

"You didn't do anything stupid like writing IOUs and signing your name, did you?"
"That's an excellent idea," said Danny. He stepped back through the gate, waited for a count of five, and then returned to Eric. Now Eric was standing, and when he saw Danny he visibly sagged with relief. "What kind of moron are you?"
"The fun-loving kind," said Danny. "I'm not an idiot, of course I didn't sign my name to IOUs."
"Good."
"I signed yours.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“He was always just mad enough to take treaties seriously. Honor, you know. I don't have any.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Love and serve the sources of your strength.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“And you're the one who thought it was too risky to go through a gate."
"That's why we're such a great team," said Eric, "We're both completely stupid about different things.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water from a well.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Or maybe laughter was how they pushed painful memories out of their minds. Perhaps laughter was the only way they could keep from killing each other.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“He understood all the words, he just had no clue what was going on. The Aunts said what they meant. Or at least they meant what they said.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Darlin', said Leslie, 'everybody on earth stays alive day to day solely because everyone they meet decides, every single day, not to kill them...”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“Good, that's settled then,' said Danny. 'Since I'm the idiot who set this all in motion by playing around with the rope-climb in a high school gym, I apologize right now for everything that goes wrong with this. With any luck, I'm the only one who gets zapped in the outself, and everything else goes on like normal for the rest of you. But if terrible things happen, please remember that I meant well, and that I did my best. That is what I promise you”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

“He sat upon the hill, a Gatefather who was now but a shadow of himself, and wept. For all his crimes he wept, for all who had died before he could save them, for the mages he had stripped of power even more utterly than he had been stripped today. I held their outselves in my hearthoard for a thousand years, some of them, or more I made myself the thief of hearts, and now I am repaid.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from The Lost Gate - Shadow of the Hegemon

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