Worlds of Exile and Illusion Quotes

“Goodbye, goodbye. Fish and visitors stink after three days. Goodbye!”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“A free man can speak freely, but a slave or fugitive must be able to hide truth and lie.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“I’ll dye black thread and weave black cloth to wear, black to wear and black to die in. But I won’t wait for anyone, or anything. Never.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“rightly, any situation, even a chaos or a trap, would come clear and lead of itself to its one proper outcome; for there is in the long run no disharmony, only misunderstanding, no chance or mischance but only the ignorant eye.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“The more defensive a society, the more conformist.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“Nothing stirred in all the dying forest, except one belated footroot down among the dead leaves, creeping with its excruciating vegetable obstinacy southward, leaving a thin track scored behind it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“Time to them was a lantern lighting a step before, a step behind—the rest was indistinguishable dark.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.…”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. Between thought and sent-thought is no gap; they are one act. There is no room for the lie.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“his heart going hard.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions

“—Que nuestros enemigos mueran sin hijos —dijo el angya gravemente, alzando la copa, que había vuelto a llenar.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Mundos de exilio e ilusión