The Winds of Dune Quotes

“Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, The Winds of Dune

“The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives”
― Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson, The Winds of Dune

“She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind.”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, The Winds of Dune

“Think of what this planet has done to us. Dune took my Duke and my son and shattered all our hopes and dreams as a family. It swallows people.”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, The Winds of Dune

“Harishka added, “You know all the obvious names. What if he has inner conversations with Genghis Khan, Keeltar the Ubertat, or Adolf Hitler? What if he takes private counsel from Agamemnon, known to be an Atreides ancestor? Or from . . . others?”
― Brian Herbert, The Winds of Dune

“There comes a time when every relationship is tested, and the true strength of the bond is determined.”
― Brian Herbert, The Winds of Dune

“We avoid what we do not wish to see; we are deaf to what we do not wish to hear; we ignore what we do not wish to know. We are masters of self-deception, of manipulating our perceptions. —Bene Gesserit summation, Wallach IX archives”
― Brian Herbert, The Winds of Dune

“There is a rule about surprises: Most of them are not good.”
― Brian Herbert, The Winds of Dune