Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3

“Besides, Wellington, the Duke is really two men. One of them I love very much. He’s charming, witty, considerate…tender—everything a woman could desire. But the other man is…cold, callous, demanding, selfish—as harsh and cruel as a winter wind. That’s the man shaped by the father.” Her face contorted. “If only that old man had died when my Duke wa

“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero,” his father said.

My mother is my enemy.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

“You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.”

From behind the headboard slipped a tiny hunter-seeker no more than five centimeters long.

The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.

—FROM “PRIVATE REFLECTIONS ON MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Which of them was the stronger? History already has answered.