Genly Ai

"Alone, I didn't know the terrain. With Estraven, I was not alone, but I still didn't know the terrain."

"I had come to Gethen as an emissary, but I was becoming something else."

"Shame is a very specific feeling: the feeling that one is justly humiliated."

"A man in a strange land will either adapt or die."

"The dead cannot praise the truth, the living must."

"The bonds between people are formed by shared suffering."

"Friendship is not a mild thing."

"Preying on one another is what men do, what men are."

"To act is to commit oneself."

"The walls between nations are made of fear."

"The road is both a prison and a liberation."

"Kings are slaves to their crowns."

"In the moment of action there is often peace"

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

"Karhide is not a nation but a family quarrel"

"We are all foreigners in the lands of others"

"One makes enemies of those one understands too well"

"Justice without mercy is cruelty"

"The future belongs to those who imagine it first"

"The strongest bonds are forged in hardship"

"The act of witnessing creates truth"

"To forgive is to choose life over judgment"

"Every wall contains the possibility of a door"

"The truest revolution happens within"

"The journey through ice mirrors the journey of the soul"

"Understanding dissolves the boundaries we construct"

"The heart knows before the mind accepts"

"A person who can go into cold hiernlivery is a person who has accepted death"

"Karhide and Orgoreyn, those two great nations, they were not so different after all"

"A man who chooses not to act has already chosen his fate"