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Quotes from The Other Wind — Ursula K. Le Guin

1929–2018 United States

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7 quotes

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

The Other Wind (2001)

I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

The Other Wind (2001)

The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

The Other Wind (2001)

There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

The Other Wind (2001)

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that’s the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it’s life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

The Other Wind (2001)

Statesmen remember things selectively.

The Other Wind (2001)

Manipulated, one manipulates others.

The Other Wind (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ursula K. Le Guin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.