Searoad Quotes

“My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad

“I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one’s own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad

“I think that things happen in nature that we don't altogether understand, and to call them ghosts is to make sure we will not understand. The best we can do is not to put a name to them, but to listen.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad

“A woman unmated but contented generally learns to hide her contentment so as not to shock her friends. There's no use defying whatever orthodoxy your culture has adopted. You just end up a witch.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad

“I never know the heron as it flies, at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet, and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad

“Nothing means anything but the proper names.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Searoad