Dune I Quotes

“We must walk without rhythm," Paul said and he called up memory of men
walking the sand . . . both prescient memory and real memory.
"Watch how I do it," he said. "This is how Fremen walk the sand."
He stepped out onto the windward face of the dune, following the curve of
it, moved with a dragging pace.
Jessica studied his progress for ten steps, followed, imitating him. She saw
the sense of it: they must sound like the natural shifting of sand . . . like
the wind. But muscles protested this unnatural, broken pattern: Step . . . drag
. . . drag . . . step . . . step . . . wait . . . drag . . . step . . .”
― Frank Herbert, Dune I

“Luego, mientras el planeta lo mataba, Kynes pensó que tanto su padre como el resto de los científicos se equivocaban, que los principios fundamentales del universo eran los errores y las casualidades.

Hasta los halcones lo sabían.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune I

“Jessica shook tears from the corners of her eyes. It was an angry gesture. "You make me feel like a little girl again - reciting my first lesson.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune I