Bee

“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia