# Quote — Orson Scott Card, Prentice Alvin

> He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost. He didn't need no philosopher to tell him that.

- 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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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/prentice-alvin/hed-undone-all

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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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