Estraven

"The ice knows no betrayal"

"Trust grows slowly in the cold"

"We are all strangers to ourselves"

"Loyalty is the currency of ice"

"Duty requires what the heart denies"

"Cold teaches what warmth cannot"

"Names bind us to our worlds"

"We cannot return to who we were"

"A man who doesn't know how to hide his feelings is a fool"

"You cannot trust words, but you can trust silence"

"We are the voices of the Kesh, and we say: change"

"The bond of ice"

"We are all Gethenians"

"Trust is something you build one stone at a time"

"The ice knows no mercy, but it knows truth"

"The darkness breeds understanding"

"The bond forged in ice is stronger than metal"

"In the ice, there is no distinction between self and other"

"To understand Gethen, one must become cold"

"Exile teaches what home means"

"The darkness of Winter holds the light of truth"

"To oppose something is to maintain it"

"Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration"

"Politics is a game played between those in power"

"All things are unequal in nature"

"You cannot lie about the ice"

"In the long run there is no winning, only enduring"

"No one here is free"

"There is no other place to go"

"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated."