If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
Orson Scott CardMom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.
Orson Scott CardIn 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 itโs 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