He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death. - Orson Scott Card

“I don’t hold with prophets,” said Alvin. “Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.”

And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.”

May the day when you need courage never come.
Even as she said it, though, she knew the day would come.