Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore Quotes

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.