“Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.”

—  Ursula K. Le Guin

“Dragonfly” (p. 200)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

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