“ This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a whi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we ha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the m… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Ursula K. Le Guin
