"Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
~ Orson Scott Card ~












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