Genly Ai

"War is the failure of imagination."

"Every person I meet is a book I must learn to read."

"The greatest journey is the one that changes the traveler."

"I learned that my enemy was not them, but my own prejudice."

"To speak truthfully is the greatest courage."

"In the end, understanding is the only victory that matters."

"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, but first and foremost they want to be regarded as human beings"

"I had been afraid of the cold, but not of anything else"

"He was my friend. For the first time I understood that I loved him"

"Harth had been my enemy, and now was my friend, and I loved him"

"I am no different from you in the matter of living. We have both come down from great mountains."

"We come from the stars, but they will not welcome us home."

"Time moves differently when you are waiting than when you are acting."

"To be wholly alien is perhaps the deepest loneliness."

"What separates a man from a woman may be less than what separates a man from himself."

"The world does not owe us understanding, only the opportunity to seek it."

"We are all exiles in some way, even in our own lands."

"I'll make you coffee."

"I had not known how much grief could exist in silence."

"Trust is a luxury we can ill afford."

"We are all mutual prisoners."

"Friendship is based on something deeper than preference."

"We are strangers in the dark."

"True journey is return."

"I had been thinking of the people of Karhide as 'men,' but what if they were not?"

"There is a whole world, whole worlds, beyond the walls."

"I am not afraid of Estraven; I am afraid of myself."

"I had to unlearn what I thought I knew."

"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, but first and foremost every human being wants to be treated as an intelligent adult."

"One cannot ask anything of the dead. It is the living we must ask."