The Dispossessed Quotes

“Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.”
― Ursula K. Le Guina

“But why hate? Hate is not functional. Why are we taught it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“She had aged more than four years. She had never had very good teeth, and now had lost two, just back of the upper eyeteeth, so that the gaps showed when she smiled. Her skin no longer had the fine taut surface of youth, and her hair, pulled back neatly was dull.

Shevek saw clearly that Takver had lost her young grace, and looked a plain, tired woman near the middle of her life. He saw this more clearly than anyone else could have seen it. He saw everything about Takver in a way that no one else could have seen it, from the standpoint of years of intimacy and years of longing. He saw her as she was.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“But why hate? Hate’s not functional. Why are we taught it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“But why hate? Hate’s not functional;
Why are we taught it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin