Rocannon’s World Quotes

“They can send death at once, but life is slower...”
― Ursula K. Le Guina K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“Not all roads that lead down lead up as well.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“What I feel..." Rocannon began.
"Well?" Ketho inquired hoarsely, after a long pause.
"What I feel sometimes is that I ... meeting these people from worlds we know so little of, you know, sometimes ... that I have as it were blundered through the corner of a legend, of a tragic myth, maybe, which I do not understand.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“Peace above all, until the War comes...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“How far a journey, Lord?"
His lips drew back and back. "A very far journey, Lady. Yet it will last only one long night.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“The world itself has become a grain of sand on the shore of night.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“A hundred years I've lost without living them[.]”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“Much is said, up there where the sun blinks."
"And words are borne off by the winds, where there are winds to blow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“Take cover!" but could not move himself. The helicopter nosed in unsteadily, rags of cloud catching in its whirring vanes. Even as he watched it approach, Rocannon watched from inside it, not knowing what he looked for, seeing two small figures on the mountainside, afraid, afraid—a flash of light, a hot shock of pain, pain in his own flesh, intolerable. The mind-contact was broken, blown clean away. He was himself, standing on the ledge pressing his right hand against his chest and gasping, seeing the helicopter creep still closer, its vanes whirring with a dry loud rattle, its laser-mounted nose pointing at him.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“He had intended to add, "Give me a couple of hours to get clear," but did not.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World