In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

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 Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.