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Ursula K. Le Guin · 2001
The sixth book in the Earthsea Cycle, following a mysterious traveler named Alder who seeks out the aging Archmage Sparrowhawk at his home on Gont, bringing with him an urgent matter that requires the former mage's wisdom and intervention.
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The dead deserve release: breaking the wall between life and death restores wholeness to both dragons and humans.
mortality
They don't speak. They don't touch. They never touch. There's no rejoining there, Hara. No bond. The mother doesn't hold her child, there.
OW-RC-026She was calling to me. I knew she was dead, I knew it in the dream, but I was glad to go. I couldn't see her clear, and I went to her.
OW-RC-012self-and-identity
Kalessin, the Eldest, calls me daughter. I am sister to Orm Embar… 'You let evil turn you into evil.'
OW-RC-095Watching her, we didn't know whether we saw a woman that burned like a fire, or a winged beast. But at the summit we saw her clearly, a dragon like a flame of red and gold.
OW-RC-064belonging
I felt as if I'd been asleep all along, in an evil dream, and now, here, I was truly awake… I cannot tell you the sweetness of it.
OW-RC-023Rather than his teaching her, they put their skills together and taught each other more than either had ever known alone.
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