Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 9 (p. 300) — from the protagonist’s major speech.
Ursula K. Le Guin , née le 21 octobre 1929 à Berkeley en Californie et morte le 22 janvier 2018 à Portland en Oregon, est une écrivaine américaine de science-fiction et de fantasy.
Elle écrit des romans, des nouvelles, des poèmes, des livres pour enfants et des essais. Elle est surtout connue à partir des années 1960 pour ses nouvelles et romans de fantasy et de science-fiction dans lesquels elle se distingue par son exploration des thèmes anarchistes, taoïstes, féministes, ethnologiques, psychologiques ou sociologiques.

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 9 (p. 300) — from the protagonist’s major speech.
“He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 1 “Mending the Green Pitcher” (pp. 47-48)
“She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.”
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 11 (p. 167)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 8 (p. 249)
“Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.”
“The Masters” p. 46 (originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February 1963)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
Ursula K. Le Guin livre Lavinia
"Lavinia, these people were Greeks."
(The spirit of Virgil explains the Trojan war to Lavinia.) p. 44
Lavinia (2008)
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren)
The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Lathe of Heaven
Source: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 10 (Haber)
“Armed men don’t sit down and talk.”
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 107)
““Is it different, then, for men and for women?”
“What isn’t, dearie?””
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 4, §3 (p. 94)
“The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 4 (pp. 53-54)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 70)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 11 “Soliloquies in Mishnory” (p. 151)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 224)
“It is light that defeats the dark.”
Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7 (Ged)
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren and Ged)
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Lathe of Heaven
Orr
The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
“Well,” he said. “Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 9, "Finding Words"
“Dragonfly” (p. 227)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“It is not human to be without shame and without desire.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 13 “Down on the Farm” (p. 177)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 8 (p. 256)
“There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,” he said gently, mockingly. “They were only the dead.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 11, "Selidor"
Introduction to the story “Winter‘s King” p. 85
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?”
Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 2 (Ogion)
“To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 84)