The Left Hand of Darkness

"I am Dossae, but Genly is my friend."

"Politics are not my concern; truth is."

"To be so completely rational as to have no emotions is to be incomplete."

"Trust is a luxury I cannot afford."

"In the darkness, I found myself."

"Fear is the worst of all enemies."

"One cannot go to the Land of Orgoreyn and return to the Land of Karhide with empty hands."

"A man who knows he is a fool is not a complete fool."

"The enemy I feared became my brother."

"We are bound by what we endure together."

"I came as a messenger but left as something else."

"Gender is a small thing compared to survival."

"I found myself by losing myself."

"I was afraid because I did not understand."

"The ice accepts no excuse or explanation."

"I understood at last what it meant to be human."

"The world is frozen, but the heart need not be."

"I had become what I never thought I could be."

"I learned that I was not welcome anywhere."

"The exile carries his country within him."

"They are neither men nor women; they are people."

"I could not have made that journey alone."

"Cold does not distinguish between enemies and friends."

"I had to learn to survive by depending on another."

"Fear is the greatest barrier between worlds."

"A man may love another man deeply and still be a man."

"I came to know that I was not who I thought I was."

"In the ice, there is no politics."

"Love is a country where borders are dreams."

"I had learned what I had come to learn."