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

"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?"