The Earthsea Quartet Quotes

“Now the darkness had also spoken:
a word that could not be unsaid.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“The sun was hot but the ceaseless wind cooled the sweat on her face and arms. She leaned back on her hands and thought of nothing, sun and wind and sky and sea filling her, making her transparent to sun, wind, sky, sea. But her left hand reminded her of its existence”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“I know that there is only one power worth having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept. Not to have, but to give. (p. 424)”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“The great and mighty go their way unchecked. All the hope left in the world is in the people of no account.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“What she had begun to feel was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“...Yolun kenarındaki o ot nedir?"
"Samançiçeği."
"Ya bu?"
"Bilmiyorum."
"Ona dörtyaprak derler." Ogion asasının bakır ucunu cılız otun dibine batırarak durmuştu, böylece Ged bitkiye yakından baktı; bitkiden kuru bir tohum zarfı kopardı ve Ogion başka bir şey söylemediği için sonunda sordu: "Ne işe yarar usta?"
"Bildiğim kadarıyla hiçbir işe."
Yola devam ederlerken Ged tohum zarfını elinde tutuyordu, sonra fırlattı attı. "Dörtyaprağı her mevsimde, yaprağıyla, çiçeğiyle, köküyle, kokusundan, görünüşünden ve tohumundan tanıyacak hale gelince, o zaman gerçek ismini öğrenebilirsin; varlığının ne olduğunu kavradığın için. Bu da kullanımını bilmekten daha önemlidir. Sonuç olarak, sen ne işe yarıyorsun? Ya da ben? Gont Dağı bir işe yarar mı? Ya da Açık Deniz?" Ogion yarım mil daha gittikten sonra nihayet "Duyabilmek için susmak gerekir," dedi.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don’t know who the dancer is”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“There the Inner Lands ended and there was nothing but the pale blue-green mosaic of the empty sea, sat here and there with a tiny dolphin or a whale.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“It is not only in dreams … that we find ourselves facing what is yet to be, in what was long forgotten, and speaking what seems nonsense because we will not see its meaning" - Sparrowhawk”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, even the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do…" (p. 73)”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Earthsea Quartet