Contact
Privacy
Book: Tehanu
Quotes of Book: Tehanu
TOP TAGS :conflictsnumbersimmunitysadness-lonelinessfundamentalistssally-jacksonspiritualityontology

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened, not something that was happening, that must always be happening to her.
    book-quote

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    He was so intense, so serious, armored in the formality of his rank and yet vulnerable in his honesty, the purity of his will. Her heart yearned to him. He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it.
    book-quote

  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can't do magic. The ones who don't have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people-my people. I didn't want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.
    book-quotefeminismwomenelderly

  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island.Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark.
    book-quoteinspirational

  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    As a child in Atuan, Tenar had learned how to learn. There seemed always to be a great deal to be learned, more than she would have believed when she was a prentice-priestess or the pupil of a mage.
    book-quote

  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe.
    book-quotesufferingpain

  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it.
    book-quote

  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    You seemed, in your power, as free as man can be. But at what cost? What made you free? And I... I was made, moulded like clay, by the will of the women serving the Old Powers, or serving the men who made all services and ways and places, I no longer know which. Then I went free, with you, for a moment, and with Ogion. But it was not my freedom. Only it gave me a choice; and I chose. I chose to mould myself like clay to the use of a farm and a farmer and our children. I made myself a vessel. I know its shape. But not the clay. Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don't know who the dancer is.
    book-quote

  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
    book-quote

  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    Which of us saved the other from the Labyrinth, Ged?
    book-quotelifesaved

  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    The heavy work requiring muscle and the skilled work with crops and sheep was done by Ged, Shandy, and Tenar, while the two old men who had been there all their lives, his father's men took him about and told him how they managed it all, and truly believed they were managing it all, and shared their believe with him.
    book-quote

  12. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in.
    book-quote
Categories