Genly Ai

"A frozen world is nothing to a man who knows the heat."

"How could you trust something that could become the opposite sex at any moment?"

"I do not know how to explain to you the extreme sense of isolation I feel."

"I had been afraid of the wrong thing, all along."

"We are all aliens to one another."

"I had learned what I had come to learn."

"I came to know that I was not who I thought I was."

"Fear is the greatest barrier between worlds."

"I had to learn to survive by depending on another."

"I could not have made that journey alone."

"They are neither men nor women; they are people."

"I learned that I was not welcome anywhere."

"I had become what I never thought I could be."

"I understood at last what it meant to be human."

"I was afraid because I did not understand."

"I found myself by losing myself."

"I came as a messenger but left as something else."

"The enemy I feared became my brother."

"Fear is the worst of all enemies."

"In the darkness, I found myself."

"To be so completely rational as to have no emotions is to be incomplete."

"Politics are not my concern; truth is."

"I came to understand that connection transcends biology."

"To know another is to begin to love them."

"In the end, we are all lonely travelers."

"I learned that a man's greatest strength lies in his vulnerability."

"We are bound not by nation but by the words we speak to each other."

"Some truths can only be learned through suffering."

"I came as an envoy, but I remained as a witness."

"The Gethenians taught me that love knows no body."