Ursula K. Le Guin idézetek
Ursula K. Le Guin: Idézetek angolul
Forrás: 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.”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
Forrás: 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.”
Forrás: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 11 (p. 167)
“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)
"Lavinia, these people were Greeks."
(The spirit of Virgil explains the Trojan war to Lavinia.) p. 44
Lavinia (2008)
Forrás: 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)
“Armed men don’t sit down and talk.”
Forrás: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 8 (p. 107)
““Is it different, then, for men and for women?”
“What isn’t, dearie?””
Forrás: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"
“The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
Forrás: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 4 (pp. 53-54)
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 70)
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 11 “Soliloquies in Mishnory” (p. 151)
“It is light that defeats the dark.”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7 (Ged)
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren and Ged)
“Well,” he said. “Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
Forrás: 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.”
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 13 “Down on the Farm” (p. 177)
“There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,” he said gently, mockingly. “They were only the dead.”
Forrás: 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?”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 2 (Ogion)
“To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.”
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 84)
