You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Hope clouds observation.

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

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.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.