SaintsFrom the bestselling author of the Ender Universe series comes Orson Scott Card's epic historical novel Saints |
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... wondered how God could have been so cruel as to create man and woman in such a way that they could not resist each other's beauty , and then command them upon threat of eternal torment not to have each other till the black - frocked ...
... wondered what her children would remember , when they got to be her age . She could remember romping down the stairs with the dogs , sliding down the banister , splashing in mud and getting a delicious and half- hearted whipping for it ...
... wondered about himself , but he was really no more monstrous than most children are . Robert knew beyond doubt how things ought to be . The family ought to live in rooms above a store . There ought to be customers . His mother ought to ...
... wondered , " Anna said , " if you have need of a fine young man . " " A child ? " " You see that Robert is tall for his age , and strong . " " Eleven ? " " Thirteen . " " Looks like eleven , and soft . We pay him for what he does , not ...
... wondered whether God really loves us . " " And what if He doesn't ? Are we so perfect that we deserve favors from Him ? " In that moment Robert discovered that he didn't believe in God . Not the God his mother taught , anyway . What ...
Contents
BOOK TWO | 83 |
BOOK THREE | 123 |
BOOK FOUR | 161 |
BOOK FIVE | 285 |
BOOK SIX | 379 |
BOOK SEVEN | 469 |
BOOK EIGHT | 529 |
BOOK NINE | 555 |
BOOK TEN | 585 |
Acknowledgments | 605 |