“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It’s a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can’t evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She’s not the betrayer, Gurney.”

― Frank Herbert

“Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”

― Frank Herbert

“Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: “He gives moisture to the dead.” It was a gift to the shadow world—tears. They would be sacred beyond a doubt.”

― Frank Herbert

“Feints within feints within feints.”

― Frank Herbert

“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.”

― Frank Herbert

“I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.”

― Frank Herbert

“It’d be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.”

― Frank Herbert

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

― Frank Herbert

“You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.”

― Frank Herbert

“They’ve also sent some incidental things—jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.”

― Frank Herbert

“Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. “They are my own hooks,” Shishakli said in a husky voice. “They never have failed.”

― Frank Herbert

“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.”

― Frank Herbert

“Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it."

― Frank Herbert

“This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be.

― Frank Herbert

“Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”

― Frank Herbert


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