Sheece

“I confess to being proud of you. That’s strange, isn’t it? Unreasonable. Propertarian, even. As if you were something that belonged to me! But as one gets older one needs certain reassurances which aren’t, always, entirely reasonable. In order to go on at all.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Indeed the longer he lived on Urras, the less real it became to him. It seemed to be slipping out of his grasp—all that vital, magnificent, inexhaustible world which he had seen from the windows of his room, his first day on the world. It slipped out of his awkward, foreign hands, eluded him, and when he looked again he was holding something quite different, something he had not wanted at all, a kind of waste paper, wrappings, rubbish.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“They were superbly trained, these students. Their minds were fine, keen, ready. When they weren’t working, they rested. They were not blunted and distracted by a dozen other obligations. They never fell asleep in class because they were tired from having worked on rotational duty the day before. Their society maintained them in complete freedom from want, distraction, and cares.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed