The Left Hand of Darkness

"The king does not hunt. The king receives."

"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated."

"There is a barrier between us, but it is not the wall of stone nor the sheet of ice. It is the barrier of fear."

"We were made separate by our very nature"

"I had become one of them"

"There is no other place to go"

"The world is as we perceive it"

"We walked on into the white"

"No one here is free"

"They were more alien to me than the Gethenians"

"In the long run there is no winning, only enduring"

"You cannot lie about the ice"

"All things are unequal in nature"

"I could not return to my ship"

"They have perfected the art of not doing"

"Politics is a game played between those in power"

"We are all alien to one another"

"The cold tried to kill us"

"A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated"

"In the darkness you are all made of fire"

"Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration"

"I had not understood that Estraven was my friend until we were already far beyond the chance of any reconciliation"

"You cannot go home again"

"To oppose something is to maintain it"

"The darkness of Winter holds the light of truth"

"I came as a messenger, but I became a friend"

"Exile teaches what home means"

"I am no longer entirely human, and that is my greatest gift"

"To understand Gethen, one must become cold"

"I came to Winter to bring it into the Ekumen, but Winter changed me first"