Xisca Xiscally

“So these are reports of my explorations and discoveries: tales from Earthsea for those who have liked or think they might like the place, and who are willing to accept these hypotheses:
things change:
authors and wizards are not always to be trusted:
nobody can explain a dragon.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea

“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

“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

“How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. Of course they were right. Women were likely, as women, to take the next generations part, not this one's; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind