Ursula Le Guin

The Tombs of Atuan

  • Dani CyChas quoted8 months ago
    Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light.
  • Dani CyChas quoted8 months ago
    What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
  • Dani CyChas quoted8 months ago
    Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, I’ll be with you in Havnor. And if you ever need me again, call me. I will come. I would come from my grave if you called me, Tenar! But I cannot stay with you.”
  • Dani CyChas quoted8 months ago
    . How could I? Why should I?”

    After a pause she said, “I see your magic is not good only for large things.”

    “Hospitality,” he said, “kindness to a stranger, that’s a very large thing. Thanks are enough,
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted4 years ago
    What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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