Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word fo... - Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice."
More quotes by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
"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."
"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."