# Quote — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron

> And the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been, and that would not be, that should be and were not, because he was dead. Shot dead on the road, in the wind, at twenty-one. His mountains unclimbed, never to be climbed.

- Author: [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md)
- Book: [The Eye of the Heron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-eye-of-the-heron.md)
- Page: 151
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Eye_of_the_Heron_(1978)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-eye-of-the-heron/and-the-rest

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> Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.

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> In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.

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> Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-eye-of-the-heron/why-should-he-remember.md)