We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

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