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Ursula K. Le Guin
“That sacrificiality was what Takver had spoken of recognizing in herself when she was pregnant, and she had spoken with a degree of horror, of self-disgust, because she too was an Odonian, and the separation of means and ends was, to her too, false. For her as for him, there was no end. There was process: process was all. You could go in a promising direction or you could go wrong, but you did not set out with the expectation of ever stopping anywhere. All responsibilities, all commitments thus understood took on substance and duration.

So his mutual commitment to Takver, their relationship, had remained thoroughly alive during their four years’ separation. They had both suffered from it, and suffered a good deal, but it had not occurred to either of them to escape the suffering by denying the commitment.

For after all, he thought now, lying in the warmth of Takver’s sleep, it was joy they were both after – the completeness of being. If you evade the suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin
“A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Shirley Jackson
“All I want is to be cherished, she thought, and here I am talking gibberish with a selfish man.”
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Radclyffe Hall
“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.”
Radclyffe Hall

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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