Nine Lives Quotes

“Yes, I love him. Why did you ask that?"
[...]"How can you... How do you..."
But Pugh could not tell him. "I don't know," he said, "it's practice, partly. I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives

“Why should they have sympathy? That's one of the things you give because you need it back.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives

“he felt like a plucked rooster, all white scrawn and pimples.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives

“What would it be like, then, to have someone as close to you as that? Always to be answered when you spoke; never to be in pain alone. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.... That hard old problem was solved. The neighbor was the self: the love was perfect.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives