Emir

“All that power held dormant, sleeping, only needing the detonation of a touch to trigger a chaos in which mind was subservient to passion, mind’s will extinguished in body’s will.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“If the Persians live in the past it is because the past is their homeland and the present is a foreign country where nothing belongs to them.”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“In this world there is no death. There is only the eternal cycle of birth and rebirth moving from one body to another. Our flesh lives in the belly of a deer, in the wing of a butterfly, in every seed you plant. Our bodies nourish the roots and leaves that keep us alive. When you care for the seeds, you care for all of our ancestors. Nothing is lost. Nothing is lost.”
― Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring