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Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2) QUOTES

Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2) QUOTES

1 " She the stranger, the foreigner, of alien blood and mind, did not share his power or his conscience or his knowledge or his exile. She shared nothing at all with him, but had met him and joined with him wholly and immediately across the gulf of their great difference: as if it were that difference, the alienness between them, that let them meet, and that in joining them together, freed them. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

2 " Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and over are wasted, how their lives and acts are wasted between desire and fear. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

3 " What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

4 " In the big, crowded, noisy room where golden suns swam on the walls and the years and Years were told on golden dials, he searched for the alien, the stranger, his wife. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

5 " Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

6 " All men were alien to one another, at times. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

7 " - Vreau să stau cu tine, zise ea.
- Vreau să stau cu tine, o îngână el. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

8 " Sun shrunk to moon. Cold comes soon. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

9 " It is very hard [...] to know the truth in stories that come from far away. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)

10 " It happens sometimes between two people: there are no barriers, no defenses. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Planet of Exile (Hainish Cycle, #2)