I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

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

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.