Earthsea
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...flying like a bird, a dragon, a child, free.
(Page 128)
This is an intense novel in which I was able to immerse myself with a little effort but a lot of pleasure. As I always say, what I love most of genres like fantasy is that they give me exciting adventures in fantastic places but they also tell about us and our world. Well, I think Le Guin is particularly great in doing this.
Tehanu is a quiet story, it can move us deeply; it tells something that, magic and dragons aside, could easily have happened in our world.
A very very good novel, but the best thing about it is that, contrary to what I thought, it's not yet the last one of the series! :D
Quotes
After Farmer Flint of the Middle Valley died, his widow stayed on the farmhouse.
[incipit]
But Ged and Ogion had lived here, bachelors, without women; everywhere Ged had lived, it was without women; so he did the "women's work" and thought nothing about it. It would be a pity, she thought, if he did think about it, if he started fearing that his dignity hung by a dishcloth.
(Page 81)
Tenar: Is it different, then, for men and for women?
Moss: What isn't, dearie?
Tenar: I don't know. It seems to me we make up most of the differences, and then complain about 'em.
(Page 135)
He could not hate her more. To be a woman was her fault. Nothing could worsen or amend it, in his eyes; no punishment was enough.
(Page 158)
It did not seem to Tenar that anybody or anything in the world had been kept out of Gont Port. It was all here.
(Page 174)
What are we so afraid of? Why do we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of? [...] What are they afraid of us for?
Tenar
(Page 253)
Tenar When has a woman power because she's a woman? [...]
Ged: In her house, maybe.
Tenar: But the doors are shut, the doors are locked.
Ged: Because you're valuable.
Tenar: Oh, yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.... [...] Lark and I talked about this once. She said, 'Why are men afraid of women?'
Ged: If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear.
Tenar: Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.
Ged: Are they ever taught to trust themselves? [...]
Tenar: No. Trust is not what we're taught.
(Pages 272-273)
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