# Quote — Orson Scott Card, The Memory Of Earth

> Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

- Author: [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md)
- Book: [The Memory Of Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-memory-of-earth.md)
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> I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.

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> Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

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> Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

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