With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

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

Withholding a decision is a decision.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.