“ [...]falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You won’t be running marathons and lifting weights. You may have trouble getting up the stairs. You may have trouble just getting out of bed. You may have trouble getting used to hurting all the time.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You shall not go down good twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vas… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You seemed, in your power, as free as man can be. But at what cost? What made you free? And I... I was made, moulded like clay, by the will of the women serving the Old Powers, or serving the men who… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark, life and death, go… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see it as I saw it then, from inside and from below, with nothing to compare it to, and as if it were… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Why must there be war? Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They, Whereas, Having, Then, To, Bison, Ignorant, Since, Winnemucca, In, It, As . . .… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We who are called royal are those who speak for our people to the powers of the earth and sky, as those powers transmit their will through us to the people. We are go-betweens. The chief duty of a kin… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We weren’t cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single princ… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We cried Sisterhood is powerful!—and they believed us. Terrified misogynists of both sexes were howling that the house was burning down before most feminists found out where the matches were. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We came. . . from a great distance to each other. We have always done so, over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We are all contingent. Resentment is foolish and ungenerous, and even anger is inadequate. I am a fleck of light on the surface of the sea, a glint of light from the evening star. I live in awe. If I… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy? The work needed doing but a lot of people didn’t care what they were posted to and changed jobs all the time; they should have volunteered. Any fool coul… Ursula K. Le Guin
