“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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“The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― The Broken Wings
― The Broken Wings
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”
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“I can bear to tell you no more— only that they comforted each other as
well as they could, and, as you probably know from your own bitter
experience, that is never quite good enough.”
― The Talisman
well as they could, and, as you probably know from your own bitter
experience, that is never quite good enough.”
― The Talisman
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