The Left Hand of Darkness

"He was my enemy, and my brother"

"The frozen world held no mercy"

"We walked together into the dark"

"Cold teaches what warmth cannot"

"Duty requires what the heart denies"

"Love crosses no borders when it transcends comprehension"

"I understood nothing, and everything"

"Loyalty is the currency of ice"

"His world was not my world"

"We are all strangers to ourselves"

"Survival demands sacrifice"

"Trust grows slowly in the cold"

"Gender is not destiny among the Gethenians"

"The ice knows no betrayal"

"Fear drives us to strange places"

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday"

"I was lost, but now I see"

"The mind is a different place on a different world"

"We cannot be complete without the other"

"Jealousy is the great leveler among all beings"

"You could not trust them at all"

"Shifgrethor is the only law we have"

"They are neither men nor women. They are ambisexual"

"The difference between us is the same as the difference between true and false"

"I don't know what you are, Mr. Ai, but I know what you aren't"

"To oppose something is to maintain it"

"He had followed the Ekumen thus far, at least; he had acted as a civilized man should"

"A person who ignored the demands of his passionate nature was a fool"

"The journey was the only thing that remained real."

"To trust is to surrender your certainty."