Ursula K. Le Guin
“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.”
“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons from within.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.”
“We read books to find out who we are.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.”
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”