Ruby

“[E]verything is always in relationship. In fact, you could almost say that everything is made of relationship, in a sense.”
― Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt

“But as the day passed, his impatience turned from a fear to a kind of glad fierceness. At least he sought this danger of his own will; and the nearer he came to it the more sure he was that, for this time at least, for this hour perhaps before his death, he was free.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“So the winter passed, till lambing season was on them, and the work got very heavy for a while as the days lengthened and grew bright. Then the swallows came from the isles under the sun, from the South Reach, where the star Gobardon shines in the constellation of Ending; but all the swallows’ talk with one another was about beginning.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu