Estraven

"Survival teaches what philosophy cannot"

"To understand another's shame is to transcend your own"

"Loyalty is the currency of the heart"

"The stranger becomes friend through shared trials"

"The mind freed from fear is the mind most dangerous"

"Prejudice is the armor of the frightened"

"To serve another is to serve yourself"

"The gift given asks nothing in return except remembrance"

"Peace begins with the choice to understand"

"In the darkness of ignorance, we are all equal"

"The shifgrethor game is how we speak without words"

"Trust is built in silence, not in speech"

"A shifgrethor violation cannot be ignored without shame"

"I am a person, not a representative"

"Betrayal and loyalty are separated by a thin line"

"A promise made in the dark carries weight in the light"

"Loyalty to a person transcends loyalty to a nation"

"The journey across the ice is a journey into the self"

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty"

"We are the same people. The difference is only in the rut"

"You cannot trust a man who will not trust you"

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; and you really are not sure that there is going to be a future at all, are you?"

"I'll make you my kemmering"

"To oppose something is to maintain it"

"Do you see, Genly, how an untreal thing can be seen?"

"Do you know what we call our country, in the language of Kesh? We call it the ekumen"

"Winter makes all things clear and simple"

"There is no refuge from change in this world"

"To be whole a man must know darkness and cold"

"The light will come again in its time"