Genly Ai

"In isolation, we discover our deepest selves"

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it"

"Nations rise and fall, but friendship endures"

"What seems alien becomes familiar through understanding"

"Hope is the warmth that sustains us in darkness"

"War serves only those who profit from fear"

"The test of a civilization is how it treats the stranger"

"One cannot walk so long on the ice and not have it enter one's bones."

"The mind that comes to a new land must come as a blank slate."

"We are the same. We are not the same."

"To learn a language is to understand a way of being."

"He thought of home, but it seemed a dream now."

"To be alien is to be seen clearly at last."

"We carry our worlds within us wherever we go."

"The journey was the only thing that remained real."

"A person who ignored the demands of his passionate nature was a fool"

"He had followed the Ekumen thus far, at least; he had acted as a civilized man should"

"The difference between us is the same as the difference between true and false"

"They are neither men nor women. They are ambisexual"

"You could not trust them at all"

"Jealousy is the great leveler among all beings"

"The mind is a different place on a different world"

"I was lost, but now I see"

"Fear drives us to strange places"

"Gender is not destiny among the Gethenians"

"Survival demands sacrifice"

"His world was not my world"

"I understood nothing, and everything"

"Love crosses no borders when it transcends comprehension"

"We walked together into the dark"