# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Children Of The Mind

> Is the brain a map that leads down twisted paths and into hidden corners? Then when we die, the map is lost but perhaps some explorer could wander through that strange landscape and find out the hiding places of our misplaced memories.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Children Of The Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind/is-the-brain

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> He chose this world as his home, not just because there was a family that needed him, but also because in this place he did not have to be entirely a member of the human race... He could be part of something larger than mere humanity.

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> I have a sense of comfortableness in love; it isn't grand sweeping passions that I expected to feel.

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