Amy ☁️ (tinycl0ud)

“Maybe the change coming into Earthsea has something to do with no longer identifying freedom with power, with separating being free from being in control. There is a kind of refusal to serve power that isn't a revolt or a rebellion, but a revolution in the sense of reversing meanings, of changing how things are understood. Anyone who has been able to break from the grip of a controlling, crippling belief or bigotry or enforced ignorance knows the sense of coming out into the light and air, of release, being set free to fly, to transcend.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

“All the greatness of men is founded on shame, made out of it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

“It's the anger of the underdog, fury against social injustice, the vengeful rage women have too often been made to feel. I'd finally learned to acknowledge such anger in myself and to try to express it without injustice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

“If it weren't all these arrangements—one above the other—kings and masters and mages and owners—It all seems so unnecessary. Real power, real freedom, would lie in trust, not force.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea