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“The winding path to victory often takes us through the shade” - Obi-Wan

Finished “Dragon in the Sea.” I really liked this one. Lots of specific details that help paint a picture of the world & the characters. It was just getting started when it ended though, & the ending felt like a cliffhanger. I would read a whole novel with this story. I’m also not sure what the title has to do with the story…

4.25/5 stars

“Do I know what it is to be truly afraid?” - Ramsey

“…down here, you never make the same mistake once.” - Bonnet

“Out here I identify myself to my God and none other” - Sparrow

“There’s no such thing as a ‘minor’ accident on a submarine” - Reed

“You say this crew rates high. That doesn’t check if the captain is a borderline psychotic” - Ramsey

“And little mourned, for who shall sing laments when all the mourners perish with the dead?”

“Therefore have faith, for faithless men must learn the lesson of a sorcerer” - Vader, as he chokes the rude imperial officer

“My boy, the Force lies not in swords alone: It may be wielded like a club or cloth that steers the feeble-minded back and forth” - Ben

“But patience seems no virtue to the bold.”

“Sing of it, Muse, who linger on the rim of one lost galaxy, far, far away…”

I finished the short story “Rat Race”. I thought it was funny that the first couple paragraphs tell you pretty much exactly what’s going to happen (kinda like how “Dune” & “Dune Messiah” do). It was interesting, but the last third of the story was just people telling us what happened elsewhere. I would’ve preferred seeing it instead of just hearing about it. Good overall though!

3.5/5 stars

“His lost vision became like the wind, blowing where it willed.”

“I think I tried to invent life, not realizing it’d already been invented” - Paul

“The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness” - Tibana

“Hunting for sand in the desert” - Chanj

“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends on the relatively simple actions of single individuals.”

“if a man lies about an apparently inconsequential thing, then that thing is not inconsequential”

Genghis Khan and Hitler mentioned

“But whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes” - Stilgar

“Once more the drama begins”

The Fremen meet the sea. My favorite part of Messiah so far

“One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.”

“No one could rule Iskat Akaris.”

“She’d made an enemy today, she knew. But she’d also made a point.”

“And an army marches on its stomach” -Captain Spider