Steven Calandra

“Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“He lifted a naked kindjal from the table and held it up. “This in the hand of an enemy can let out your life’s blood! You’re an apt pupil, none better, but I’ve warned you that not even in play do you let a man inside your guard with death in his hand.” “I guess I’m not in the mood for it today,” Paul said. “Mood?” Halleck’s voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield’s filtering. “What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There‘s wealth enough, I need no more,
Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store.
The world no longer let me love,
My hope and treasure lies above.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.”
― Jim Butcher, Furies of Calderon