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Chani - his soul
Chani - his Sihaya

“I’m like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them
And I say: ‘Look! I have hands!’ But the people around me say: ‘What are hands?’”

“+Thine enemies shall fall
- Bi-la Kaifa”

“Beginnings are delicate times”

“Subtlety and self-control were ,after all, the most deadly threats to us all”

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: “Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.”
~Princess Irulan

Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you content with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.

“He said the drowning man who climbs on your shoulder to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room. And, I should add, except when you see it at the dinner table.”

~Paul Baba Atreides