The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light. I found the lamp unlit; I won’t leave it on some desert island like a thing found and cast away.

A writer sometimes writes a message for herself, to be read when she begins to understand it.