Xisca Xiscally

“By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“But I know him, Moss. It’s Sparrowhawk.” Saying the name, Ged’s use-name, released a tenderness in her, so that for the first time she thought and felt that this was he indeed, and that all the years since she had first seen him were their bond. She saw a light like a star in darkness, underground, long ago, and his face in the light.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“Para mí, la violación posee ante todo esa particularidad: es algo obsesivo. Vuelvo a ello todo el tiempo. Desde hace veinte años, cada vez que creo haber acabado con ello, vuelvo. Para decir cosas diferentes y contradictorias. Novelas, historias cortas, canciones, películas. Imagino siempre que un día podré acabar con ello. Liquidar el evento, vaciarlo, agotarlo.

Imposible. Es fundacional. De lo que soy como escritora, como mujer que ya no es exactamente una. Es al mismo tiempo lo que me desfigura y lo que me constituye.”
― Virginie Despentes, Teoría King Kong

“The first thing I did was sit down and draw a map. I saw and named Earthsea and all its islands. I knew almost nothing about them, but I knew their names. In the name is the magic.

Introduction, The Books Of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea