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

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

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