# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, Shadow’s End

> Every hundred years they would be disillusioned, and each time they would swear to hide their disillusionment in order to retain their power. “We won’t tell anyone,” they’d say. “We won’t let anyone know. We’ll deny it. We’ll defend the traditional teachings!”
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> Such things that happened before! Men in power had made mistakes or foolish claims and spent the rest of their lives and their successors’ lives defending the indefensible, or hiding it.

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [Shadow’s End](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end.md)
- Page: 344
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Shadow's_End_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/every-hundred-years

## More from this book

> Sex was pleasurable, sure, but survival was sweeter still.

p. 133 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/sex-was-pleasurable.md)

> “That’s different. That’s paradise. Like it was on Breadh.”
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> “Were there many people on Breadh?”
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> Snark laughed, abruptly joyous. “Hardly any! That’s what made it paradise!”

p. 384 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/thats-different-thats.md)

> Does the worm on the hook expect to be rescued simply because the fish have eaten all the other worms?

p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/does-the-worm.md)