The Left Hand of Darkness

"The feminine is not weakness; it is the strength of the earth"

"In the ice, there is no distinction between self and other"

"The king keeps his throne by knowing how to move like water"

"We fear what we do not understand"

"The bond forged in ice is stronger than metal"

"I had to become Gethenian to understand Gethen"

"Power is given to those who seize it, not those who wait for it"

"The darkness breeds understanding"

"I learned that Gethenians were not like other people, and other people were not like Gethenians"

"The ice knows no mercy, but it knows truth"

"He is my brother"

"I had been taught that the Gethenians were wholly alien, but they were not"

"Trust is something you build one stone at a time"

"We are all Gethenians"

"He came quite close to me, and I could see tears running down his face"

"The bond of ice"

"Men are men, but I never knew what women were until I came to Winter"

"Politics is the art of the possible"

"We are the voices of the Kesh, and we say: change"

"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer"

"You cannot trust words, but you can trust silence"

"Fear is the handmaiden of failure"

"It was hard to tell the difference between him and her"

"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to me"

"A man who doesn't know how to hide his feelings is a fool"

"In the end, we are all strangers in strange lands"

"Truth wears many faces on Gethen"

"We cannot return to who we were"

"The journey transforms the traveler"

"Names bind us to our worlds"