Amanda

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Isn’t it strange to see that, even as one’s own story unfolds, others are traveling through their own, which may be just as interesting?”
― Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

“Goodbye, Lizzy. I will see you again, of course—but you will not see me. Not really. You never have. It is too bad. This the part, I suppose, where the novel would wrap up with a tidy boring moral, so I will say this: Love your best friends. Forgive your worst friends. Remember, always, not to judge people too hastily, for everyone is living out a story of their own, and you only get to read the pages you appear on.”
― Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

“Will he always come between us?
Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead