The Left Hand of Darkness

"Beauty and cruelty are neighbors on Gethen"

"We are all traitors in the eyes of someone"

"Exile teaches us the value of belonging"

"The heart knows what the mind cannot understand"

"Fear makes us kin"

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

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

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

"The only way out is through"

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

"We are the same under our skins"

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

"The glaciers will always return to us"

"What is love but trust?"

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

"We are all aliens on Gethen"

"Love and hate both require understanding"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Shame is a barrier to love"

"You cannot buy the wind"

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

"Light is the left hand of darkness"