Colin Ellis

“One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven’t treated very well. That’s much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were sub-human monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn’t nearly as black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt. We do like to keep a good opinion of ourselves, don’t we?”
― David Eddings, The Complete Tamuli Trilogy

“There’s a Hainish parable of the Mirror. If the glass is whole, it reflects the whole world, but broken, it shows only fragments, and cuts the hand that holds it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling

“All stories are long,” he murmured. The Fertiliser had said something like that once. Short stories are only pieces of the long one, he had said.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling

“But belief is the wound that knowledge heals, and death begins the Telling of our life”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling