Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant
"Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have."
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"Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have."
"لي لي لي. تلك كانت لعنة البشر وقوتهم؛ أن ما يقع عليه بصرهم ويحبونه، يجب أن يمتلكوه. قد يشاركونه مع آخرين، ولكن فقط إذا تصوروا هؤلاء الآخرين كأنهم جزء منهم بطريقة ما. ما نملكه هو ملكنا. وما تملكه أنت يجب أن يكون ملكنا أيضاً. في الحقيقة، أنت لا تملك شيئاً، إذا أردناه نحن. لأنك لا شيء. نحن البشر الحقيقيون، أما أنتم فمجرد متظاهرين بالبشرية في محاولة لحرماننا مما أراد الله لنا أن نمتلكه."
Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant
"So the I. F. is spying on Earth."Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy."
"إذن، الاتحاد الفضائي يتجسس على الأرض.
"تمامًا كما تتجسس الأم على أطفالها وهم يلعبون في الفناء."
جميل أن نعرف أنكِ ترعيننا يا "مامي"."
Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant
"The emotion she could deal with best was anger."
Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant
"How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday."
Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant
"Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people."
Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant
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