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The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) QUOTES

The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) QUOTES

1 " So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it.
We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom... "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

2 " I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

3 " We broke the world to make it whole... "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

4 " I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer, "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

5 " How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. Of course they were right. Women were likely, as women, to take the next generations part, not this one's; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

6 " He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

7 " It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

8 " Greed puts out the sun. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

9 " But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

10 " Dessutom tar jag hellre emot dåliga nyheter från en ärlig man än lögner från en smickrare (s. 72). "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

11 " Världen är väldig och förunderlig,..., men den är inte väldigare eller mer förunderlig än vårt medvetande. (s. 65) "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

12 " Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends in its beauty, it's what the harpers sing of and the poets make stories of: the love that escapes the years....

"All or nothing, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond? "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

13 " The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

14 " I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

15 " he had spent his life learning how to choose to do what he had no choice but to do. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

16 " Women were likely, as women, to take the next generation’s part, not this one’s; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

17 " She looked where he was looking, into the dim gulf of air above the western sea. "If she comes, she'll come from there," he said. "And if she doesn't come, she is there." She nodded. "I know." Her eyes were filled with tears. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

18 " As soon as I came there, I knew I could sleep. I felt as if I'd been asleep all along, in an evil dream, and now, here, I was truly awake: so I could truly sleep. There was a place he took me to, in among the roots of a huge tree, all soft with the fallen leaves of the tree, and he told me I could lie there. And i did, and I slept. I cannot tell you the sweetness of it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

19 " How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another—then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

20 " They are beasts as we are beasts. Men are animals that speak. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)