Quotes from Orsinian Tales — Ursula K. Le Guin
1929–2018 United States
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Josef liked to read books, not pack them.
Orsinian Tales (1976)
A man, he walked with men across a barren plain blue with flowers in brief April; they shared with him their anger, their barren helpless obduracy and the brief blue fire of their anger.
Orsinian Tales (1976)
And fourteen—fourteen is such a fearful age, when you find out so fast what you’re capable of being, but also what a toll the world expects.
Orsinian Tales (1976)
For heroes do not make history—that is the historians’ job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war.
Orsinian Tales (1976)
He had waked her; he had given her what she lacked, and what few men could have given her: the sense of peril, which is the root of love.
Orsinian Tales (1976)
I was afraid I’d fail. So I didn’t work.
Orsinian Tales (1976)