Top 16 Tenar Quotes
#1. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
Brit Marling
#3. American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
Christopher Dawson
#5. After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.
Arnon Goldfinger
#6. The word human itself comes from the same root as humus, earth.
Eben Alexander
#7. I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.
Rodney Dangerfield
#8. Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness.
Studs Terkel
#11. For however strong you may be in respect of your army, it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#12. Sometimes people leave such a deep imprint on our hearts that they never go away.
Marissa Honeycutt
#13. You think your life belongs to you? Tenar gave me my life. That's why I have to live, so that I can give life to someone else. Lebannen ... that is the only way we can live forever.
Goro Miyazaki
#14. The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.
Walter Munk
#15. You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth."
"Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#16. To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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