"And you actually were cuddly," said Carn. "No offense, but you were spunky." "If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly. - Orson Scott Card

When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

“You must be a prophet right enough,” said Alvin Junior, “cause I can’t understand a thing you said.”