Therem Harth rem ir Estraven

"Light is the left hand of darkness"

"A man who won't work cannot love, and a man who won't love is a man who won't work"

"You cannot buy the wind"

"Shame is a barrier to love"

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty"

"Winter is hard, but we have learned to live in it"

"In the darkness of the womb we are all waiting to be born"

"To be king of a world of ice is to be lord of very little"

"Estraven was right, and I was slow to see it"

"A man who cannot be alone cannot be with anyone"

"The cold is hard, but it makes us real"

"Love and hate both require understanding"

"We are all aliens on Gethen"

"King and peer, we were neither one thing nor another"

"What is love but trust?"

"The glaciers will always return to us"

"Politics is the art of making the possible seem inevitable"

"We are the same under our skins"

"Time is the healer that makes us strange to ourselves"

"The only way out is through"

"I am a man, but I was not always so"

"Karhide is home, and home is always worth defending"

"We dream in the same language though we wake in different worlds"

"Fear makes us kin"

"The heart knows what the mind cannot understand"

"Exile teaches us the value of belonging"

"We are all traitors in the eyes of someone"

"Beauty and cruelty are neighbors on Gethen"

"The young must learn what the old know through suffering"

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of understanding"