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“Billions of years ago, a single, fluke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of poison gas and volcanic slag into this peopled garden. And everything you hope, fear and love became possible.”

yeah I'm starting to see why this won the pulitzer prize

This last story is blowing my fkn mind

I'm so in love with the spotlight Moss is getting in this book that she didn't get- or that any women got, really- in all of the preceding books of the series.. this is rly shaping up to be my favourite in the earthsea cycle. ugh I just love ursula endlessly and this book is such a beautiful ode to her feminist awakening

im having the most wonderful time with this

oh this is the sax and ann content I've been fucking WAITING FOR

we on a rooney binge baybeeee

oof this is just as good as conversations with friends

loved nirgal's second chapter

God I just love this cast of characters so much. Every time I revisit this series I just remember how much I appreciate good character writing and character design as a whole

I’m now just realising similarities with the political strife, motivations and aspirations between Anarres and Urras from The Dispossessed with Mars and Earth…. ahh I love the Ursula influence

this is so funnnnnn

«…a cup of tea may not be the most important thing in the world—or a steam bath, or a pretty garden. They’re so superfluous in the grand scheme of things. But the people who did actually important work—building, feeding, teaching, healing—they all came to the shrine. It was the little nudge that helped important things get done. »
what a lovely message of the necessity of simple things!