That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all. - Orson Scott Card

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.

Alvin wondered if it was true—if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart's desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.