Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”