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"My bookclub chose this book over The Dispossessed, I cannot fathom this event" — Jan 10, 2026 05:09PM
"My bookclub chose this book over The Dispossessed, I cannot fathom this event" — Jan 10, 2026 05:09PM
“Don't try to understand it. Accept it. I am in the world beyond this world here. For me, they are the same. I need no hand to guide me. I see every movement all around me. I see every expression of your face. I have no eyes, yet I see.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“Language creates possibility. Sometimes by being used. Sometimes by being kept secret.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“He laughed. And he said 'People don't want a bookkeeper for an Emperor; they want a master, someone who'll protect them from change.' But he agreed that destruction of his Empire arises from himself.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“He watched her accept this. She did it the way sand accepted water: absorbing and concealing. Was there obedience beneath that hot, angry surface? he wondered. And he realized then that life in the royal Keep had left Chani unchanged. She'd merely stopped here for a time, inhabited a way station on a journey with her man. Nothing of the desert had been taken from her.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
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