Ursula Le Guin

so the whole year had passed, just as the years before it had passed, and were all the years of her life to pass so?

son of myth, inheritor of dreams.

man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. If the rowan’s roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. If the rowan’s roots are shallow, it bears no crown

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. If the rowan’s roots are shallow, it bears no crown

To hear, one must be silent.”

“The wise don’t need to ask, the fool asks in vain,”

“The Princess Elfarran was only a woman,” said Vetch, “and for her sake all Enlad was laid waste, and the Hero-Mage of Havnor died, and the island Soléa sank beneath the sea.”

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

“Are you messenger or message?”