Roy

“thereby forfeiting the juicy solo in Peter and the Wolf (the duck’s theme) to the demonstrably inferior Evelyn Oh, whose rendition of it did, appropriately enough, sound like a quacking fucking duck, as did everything that came out of Evelyn Oh’s quacking fucking Oh-boe.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can’t your universe merely be?”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons. And the way ahead grew dark.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“To oppose something is to maintain it.
They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness