The Left Hand of Darkness

"A wall between two enemies, or two friends, makes no difference when you begin to understand the language of the stones."

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

"The less you own, the less it owns you."

"The king is a privy to something, something secret and wrong"

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

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

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

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness"

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

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

"To speak truthfully is the greatest courage."

"Time moves differently when you are not counting the days."

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

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

"To understand another's mind is to walk in their shadow."

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

"War is the failure of imagination."

"Loyalty is written on the ice, where all things freeze and become permanent."

"The Gethenians taught me that love knows no body."

"I came as an envoy, but I remained as a witness."

"Some truths can only be learned through suffering."

"We are bound not by nation but by the words we speak to each other."

"Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is remembering with love."

"I learned that a man's greatest strength lies in his vulnerability."

"Ambition is the thief of happiness."

"In the end, we are all lonely travelers."

"Duty binds us more than kinship ever could."

"To know another is to begin to love them."

"I came to understand that connection transcends biology."

"What is the good of power if not to preserve the bond between two people?"