“Eck nodded, a bit uncertainly. He supposed that in the absence of a future, a friend might be nice.”
“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”
“Frustration was my constant companion. I wanted to scream. "What the he-eck are we supposed to do now? I asked Fang.He looked at me, and I could tell he was mulling over the problem. He held out a small waxed-paper bag.Peanut?”
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”