Genly Ai

"The frozen world held no mercy"

"He was my enemy, and my brother"

"The journey transforms the traveler"

"Truth wears many faces on Gethen"

"In the end, we are all strangers in strange lands"

"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to me"

"It was hard to tell the difference between him and her"

"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer"

"Men are men, but I never knew what women were until I came to Winter"

"He came quite close to me, and I could see tears running down his face"

"I had been taught that the Gethenians were wholly alien, but they were not"

"He is my brother"

"I learned that Gethenians were not like other people, and other people were not like Gethenians"

"I had to become Gethenian to understand Gethen"

"We fear what we do not understand"

"The feminine is not weakness; it is the strength of the earth"

"I came to Winter to bring it into the Ekumen, but Winter changed me first"

"I am no longer entirely human, and that is my greatest gift"

"I came as a messenger, but I became a friend"

"You cannot go home again"

"I had not understood that Estraven was my friend until we were already far beyond the chance of any reconciliation"

"In the darkness you are all made of fire"

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

"The cold tried to kill us"

"We are all alien to one another"

"They have perfected the art of not doing"

"I could not return to my ship"

"They were more alien to me than the Gethenians"

"We walked on into the white"

"The world is as we perceive it"