The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

After a pause she said, “I see your magic is not good only for large things.” “Hospitality,” he said, “kindness to a stranger, that’s a very large thing.

She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.