Planet of Exile Quotes

“She the stranger, the foreigner, of alien blood and mind, did not share his power or his conscience or his knowledge or his exile. She shared nothing at all with him, but had met him and joined with him wholly and immediately across the gulf of their great difference: as if it were that difference, the alienness between them, that let them meet, and that in joining them together, freed them.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“All men were alien to one another, at times.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and over are wasted, how their lives and acts are wasted between desire and fear.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“They were not listening—only waiting for him to be done talking.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“It happens sometimes between two people: there are no barriers, no defenses.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“It is very hard [...] to know the truth in stories that come from far away.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“Sun shrunk to moon. Cold comes soon.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“In the big, crowded, noisy room where golden suns swam on the walls and the years and Years were told on golden dials, he searched for the alien, the stranger, his wife.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“- Vreau să stau cu tine, zise ea.
- Vreau să stau cu tine, o îngână el.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“Ağır yaralı olmasına karşın Wattock'un verdiği ufacık, top şeklinde muhteşem ilaç sayesinde acısı dinen bir yabansoylu, Rolery'ye, "Neden ağlıyorsun?" diye sordu. Uykulu sesiyle bir çocuk kadar meraklı sormuştu. "Bilmiyorum," dedi Rolery ona. "Uyu hadi." Ama az çok biliyordu ki, sebebi insanın içini acıtan o umuttu.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile

“Git hadi; rüzgâr gibi özgür ve her zamanki gibi cahilsin.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile