Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard Of Earthsea Quotes

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.