Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

And one light off to their left grew brighter, began to wink back at the cliff—very fast: blinksquirt, glimmer, blink!

He had looked up to a rock spire, seen it change shape under the blast, becoming a low, cheddar-colored wedge. Sand funneled into their basin had shadowed the sky with dull curry, then blotted out all light as the tent was covered.

the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future—all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.

oh so actually the three eyed raven. fosh

“I have her, Majesty!” the Baron shouted. “Shall I dispatch her now-eeeeeeeeeeeh!” He hurled her to the floor, clutched his left arm. “I’m sorry, Grandfather,” Alia said. “You’ve met the Atreides gom jabbar.” She got to her feet, dropped a dark needle from her hand.

this was my favorite part of the book. alia reminds me a lot of arya.

“The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever,” Paul said. “The Guild is crippled. Humans become little isolated clusters on their isolated planets. You know, I might do this thing out of pure spite…or out of ennui.”

spite or ennui?? sounds like gus

“Think on it, Chani: that princess will have the name, yet she’ll live as less than a concubine—never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she’s bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.”

this is a weird ending to the book. I spent a month reading this loooonnnggg epic book and it closes on a woman basically saying that she's excited that she'll be labelled a wife someday? that's what's important here??? Actually, the whole kwisatz haderach thing is pretty annoying. you have a bunch of strong, interesting, powerful women, BUT if a man can learn the way then he'll be more powerful than them all. wtf man