Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen.
Ursula K. Le GuinWe make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: perception
I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: marriage laziness angry-women
Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.
Ursula K. Le GuinI always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: poetic lying-to-ourselves
Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: women mothers emotional-context-switching
I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you'd felt anything like that for me, you'd have known I did. But it wasn't both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you're leaving ... At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn't be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. [...]
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: declarations-of-love
Fact is one of our finest fictions.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: facts-wisdom
Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: time time-travel passage-of-time
On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. ‘Do you know that sign?’
He looked at it a long time with a strange look, but he said, ‘No.’
‘It’s found on Earth, and on Hain-Davenant, and on Chiffewar. It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness…how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.
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