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this series is a little dangerous because i have a lot of work to do but i cannot put the book down

“if my mother had only created Acorn, the refuge for the homeless and orphaned.. if she had created Acorn and not Earthseed, then i think she would have been a wholly admirable person” (60)

“maybe i love him. sometimes i think i do. he says he loves me. but if all i had to look forward to was marriage to him and babies and poverty that just keeps getting worse, i think id kill myself” (82).

“there would be nothing of tabloid journalism to expose if we lived our lives out in the open, committed to truth telling. commitment to knowing love can protect us by keeping us wedded to a life of truth… to be loving we hear each others truth and affirm the value of truth telling. lies may help people feel better but they do not help them to know love” (47/49)