It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always …

Orson Scott Card
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It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2005). Enchantment, p.32, Del Rey
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