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.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.