We’re a rough people, born of oak, as they say, here in the western land; tempers run high, weapons are always at hand.
We’re a lot of newcomers, see, for my Lord Meshe was born 2,202 years ago, but the Old Way of the Handdara goes back ten thousand years before that. You have to go back to the Old Land if you’re after...
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our und...
We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago, and we were right. We took nothing. Because there is nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, and the poor and the...
We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We talked about life....And the sea was there, forty feet away and getting closer, and the sky over the sea, and the sun going...
Ve sonra, eğer bana ihtiyacın olursa, beni çağır. Gelirim. Beni çağırırsan, mezarımdan bile çıkar gelirim Tenar ! Ama seninle kalamam.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Tormenbod
To hear, one must be silent.
To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back. In such a tendency was already foreshadowed, perhaps, the nature of the immense exploration he was to undertake into the extremes of...
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
To deny the past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
Thwil Town
Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievem...
This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.
This weight of verifiable place-event-phenomenon-behavior makes the reader forget that he is reading a pure invention, a history that never took place anywhere but in that unlocalizable region, the au...
This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why...
This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is honor? Ista
They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.