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

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?

"Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?"

"Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers."

"Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?"