Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.