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Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3) QUOTES

Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3) QUOTES

1 " Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

2 " If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

3 " Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

4 " I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

5 " The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

6 " What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

7 " 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 the only way things could possibly be. Children see the world that way. So do most slaves. Freedom is largely a matter of seeing that there are alternatives. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

8 " The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

9 " Women used and did what there was to use and do, but men shunned and despised a great many things, such as wicker chairs and cooking and storytelling, depriving themselves of many skills and pleasures, in order to prove that they weren't women. Wouldn't it be better to prove it by doing, rather than by not doing? "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

10 " They were my age, but we’d reached our age by different roads. What "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

11 " I could forget everything I'd lost, because I'd never had it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

12 " I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I didn't put it that way to him. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

13 " She told Everra that he had given her and Sallo the soul's hunger for books and thoughts, and must not deprive them now that Sallo was starving among the inanities of the silk rooms and she among the pomposities of merchants and the illiteracy of politicians. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

14 " I did not live my life as history is written. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

15 " When at last I learned forgetting, I learned it very quickly and all too well. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

16 " When you have nothing to pray for, that’s when Luck hears you. If "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

17 " Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

18 " Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Now, "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

19 " The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been betrayed. Venne "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

20 " …what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)