Sara J. (kefuwa)’s Reviews > Dune > Status Update

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. - from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. - from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

The mind goes on working no matter how we hold it back.

"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." - from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatical loyalty ... Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

He had never imagined anything here could be as beautiful as that shattered red horizon and the purple and ochre cliffs. Beyond the landing field where the night's faint dew had touched life into the hurried seeds of Arrakis, he saw great puddles of red blooms and, running through them, an articulate tread of violet...

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon. It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention.

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."