Erin

“The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? But of course there is no way to tell this or to hear it. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you have no idea how death stands in the corner, ready to play his part. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you do not know the power that rises from other women-even strangers speaking an unknown tongue, invoking the names of unfamiliar goddesses.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune