Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.