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The Eye of the Heron QUOTES

The Eye of the Heron QUOTES

1 " And so, because he won't let himself be hurt, he does wrong to those he loves best. And then he sees that, and after all, it hurts him. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Eye of the Heron

2 " I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything up to the men, you know. That's one reason why I'd like to go home, at least for a visit. To see what Elia with his theories, and my dear young Lev with his ideals, are up to. I get worried they'll go too fast and too straight and get us into a place we can't get out of, a trap. You see it seems to me that where men are weak and dangerous is in their vanity. A woman has a center, is a center. But a man isn't, he's a reaching out. So he reaches out and grabs things and piles them up around him and says, I'm this, I'm that, this is me, that's me, I'll prove that I am me! And he can wreck a lot of things, trying to prove it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Eye of the Heron

3 " The wind and light on rock top hill and his voice and the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been and that would not be. That should be and were not because he was dead. Shot dead on the road in the wind at 21. His mountains unclimbed, never to be climbed. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Eye of the Heron

4 " Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing—only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Eye of the Heron