Bridget

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“His meek deference, yes, even in the face of certain death, with no hope he would be spared, when his obedience could buy him nothing.”
― Sally Rooney

“Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others—it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual. Water.”
― Frank Herbert, The Great Dune Trilogy

“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate”
― Frank Herbert, Dune