Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.