The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

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

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.

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