Lou

“A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“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

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“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