# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys

> There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Lost Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys/there-was-the

## More from this book

> There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys/theres-some-people.md)

> Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys/even-the-good.md)

> This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/lost-boys/this-is-what.md)