Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLove doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBut need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
@cherileigh9.bsky.social📖 Ursula K. Le Guin - first woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula for the same book (Left Hand of Darkness, 1969). Also gave us Earthsea, one of the first major fantasies with a protagonist of color.
Which of her books would you recommend?
#AuthorFacts #UrsulaKLeGuin #FantasyBooks
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBelief is the wound that knowledge heals.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLight is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDo nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhat is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOther people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLight is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWould you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
@calyxworks.comBecause I know that at least ONE of you would rock an #UrsulaKLeGuin #ForestKingdom backpatch, I made one. 🌲👑
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThat is between me and my shadow.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThis was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?