The Left Hand of Darkness

"We are all aliens to one another."

"Forsivin! I had no forgiveness coming."

"I had been afraid of the wrong thing, all along."

"Winter is the time for stories, not for traveling."

"I do not know how to explain to you the extreme sense of isolation I feel."

"How could you trust something that could become the opposite sex at any moment?"

"One cannot simply walk away from one's kethil."

"A frozen world is nothing to a man who knows the heat."

"What is written on ice will fade, but what is written on stone remains"

"Death is but another winter we must endure"

"The greatest power is the power to forgive"

"We change the world by changing ourselves"

"The mind can endure what the body cannot"

"In the end, loyalty is what matters most"

"The truth is like ice: it cuts both ways"

"We are all exiles from somewhere"

"The darkness we fear is often the darkness within"

"To rule is to serve those you rule"

"The frozen world preserves what we wish to forget"

"History repeats itself for those who will not learn from it"

"We are born alone and we die alone, but in between we touch"

"The strongest man is he who can admit his weakness"

"Patience is the virtue of those who have learned to wait"

"We cannot change what we do not understand"

"The ice is impartial; it kills without malice"

"In giving we receive more than we give"

"The darkness teaches us to see"

"I have learned that the enemy is also myself"

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

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