History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

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

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper