Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Ursula K. Le Guin

• Rock
• Sides
• Rocks
• Fog

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• And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rock
  • Sides
  • Rocks