Quotes from The Tombs of Atuan — Ursula K. Le Guin
1929–2018 United States
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, “Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!”
There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing — the one true thing!
The Tombs of Atuan (1971)