Taro

“[...]there was no other such comfort on this dead hollow world. More power to them, who made love.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Genre, a concept which could have served as a useful distinction of various kinds of fiction, has been degraded into a disguise for mere value-judgment. The various "genres" are now mainlt commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers, lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

“What would it be like, then, to have someone as close to you as that? Always to be answered when you spoke; never to be in pain alone. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.... That hard old problem was solved. The neighbor was the self: the love was perfect.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives

“Yes, I love him. Why did you ask that?"
[...]"How can you... How do you..."
But Pugh could not tell him. "I don't know," he said, "it's practice, partly. I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives