# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Prentice Alvin

> And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn't the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [Prentice Alvin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/prentice-alvin.md)
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> Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he'd stay stupid.

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> Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.

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> You can't change what you don't understand.

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