it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.