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"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain."

"She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living, breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she so raged against."

"Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds."

"Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity."

“They sensed somehow that she lived in the penumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous.”

"It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened." - One chapter in and I can already tell this is gonna be good

Ugh this is like watching a movie with a yapper who has already seen the movie and is over explaining everything to you. Just let me figure it out for myself, Brandon.

”Paul’s stillsuit rode easily on his body and he was only distantly aware of his nose plugs, the breathing mask. Stilgar’s teaching, the painstaking hours on the sand, overshadowed all else.”

”I’ve been a long time waiting for you,” she said. “Here is my life.”
There it was, encapsuled, all of it.
Even the moment of death.

”He looked at his hand. How inadequate it appeared when measured against such creatures as that worm.”

”Recalling the experience, he recognized his own terrible purpose — the pressure of his life spreading outward like an expanding bubble…time retreating before it…”

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. The Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”

"He felt a sense of wonder at the uncharacteristic seriousness in Halleck's manner, the sobering intensity."

" 'If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets' ... what an odd expression that was to be taking to a planet that had never known seas or fishes."