Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their… — Orson Scott Card

I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?