Children of Dune Quotes

Ghanima: He runs and runs and runs. And when he's exhausted himself, he returns to me, puts his head in my lap and asks me to help him find a way to die.

Farad'n Corrino: But why does he want to die?

Ghanima: To save himself from the sacrifices he must make, sacrifices for the future of us all

Farad'n Corrino: Then there is a place for me in this future?

Ghanima: Your blood was spared the day Leto came back to me.

Farad'n Corrino: What of our marriage then?

Ghanima: [Ghani turns around] As my mother was not wife, you shall never be husband.

Farad'n Corrino: Politics.

Ghanima: Politics. But in time, there my be love, which is more then my brother will have.

[Ghani looks out into the desert]

Ghanima: One of us had to accept the agony. He was always the stronger. History is written on the sands of Arrakis. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed but another has opened and on the other side... our future.

Alia: Mommy, help me.

Leto: [sets a knife down in front of Alia] Help yourself.

Leto: Behold me, family!

[lets out a sandworm's roar]

Leto: I am Leto, Lion of Atreides, returned from the desert to announce Secher Nbiw - The Golden path, to rid humanity of the perversions done in Muad'dib's name and to save it from the abomination know as Alia

Leto: Alia's water. Take it into the desert and spread it upon the open sand in the midday sun. It is our way. Are you going back to Sietch Tabr?

Stilgar: I wish to return to our old ways.

Leto: The deserts dying, Stil.

Stilgar: And the Freman too, I'm afraid.

Leto: We're about to go through the crucible, but we'll come out the other side. We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its... changed form.

Stilgar: [Leto hands Stil Pauls ring] Your grandfather's ring... and your father's.

Leto: And now the Fremen's - to remind you of Muad'Dib. To remind you that all humans make mistakes, and that all leaders are but human.

Irulan: [obviously afraid as her stepchildren fly her near three large sandworms] Perhaps a slightly higher altitude would be advisable, Leto.

Leto: Do you know, my father used to love being this close to the ground when he flew?

Irulan: And you, of course, know this intuitively, don't you? Just like how you knew to fly it without any training.

Leto: Don't forget your Bene Gesserit training, step-mother. Fear is the mind killer.

Ghanima: I'm afraid she's about to let it pass through her.

Reverend Mother Mohiam: What is the meaning of this?

Priest: Helen Gaies Mohiam of the Bene Gesserit, You have violated Mua'Dib's eternal order never to set foot on Arrakis again.

Reverend Mother Mohiam: I am not on Arrakis. I am in free space.

Fremen: There is no such thing as free space where Mua'Dib rules.

Alia: I heard about your little stunt in the desert.

Leto: Well, I prefer to think of it as expert flying but carry on...

Alia: With your encouragement of course!

Ghanima: Our Father's memories were very instructive.

Alia: Well, I suppose I should be grateful I don't have to tell your grandmother you were lost to a worm before she was supposed to see you.

Ghanima: That would have been an unpleasant task, wouldn't it?

Leto: Put the weapon away, cast out. That is what you are? Adopting the cameleon colors of a smuggler tribe in order to keep your true identities hidden.

Sabiha: Allowing us to survive, trading Spice.

Leto: That's not all, is it? You're breeding Sand Trout. I've seen the holding pens. Selling Worms off-planet you hope to break the Atreides monopoly on Spice.

Sabiha: It is dangerous for you to know these things.

Leto: More dangerous for you; none of your Worms survive long away from Dune.

Sabiha: Not yet.

Leto: Not ever.

[takes a drink of Spice]

Sabiha: You're already saturated with Spice.

Leto: Then it can no longer harm me. I have survived the Crucible Sabiha. I have silenced the voices within that would have possessed me. Only I remain now; to do what I must do.

Sabiha: And what is that?

Leto: Save the desert.

Gurney Halleck: My loyalty is to House Atreides.

Leto: Well, I am House Atreides.

Gurney Halleck: And what of your Aunt?

Leto: My Aunt is lost; lost to forces she could not control. Forces that wish to destroy House Atreides.

Gurney Halleck: What have you done to yourself?

Leto: I have made a choice, accepted a destiny, nothing more.

Gurney Halleck: My eyes can see it; but my mind refuses to believe.

Leto: Believe it Gurney. Remember the words of my father and my grandfather, your Duke. They spoke to you of Desert Power. Well, I AM Desert Power, and nothing can stop what is going to happen.

The Preacher: [feeling Leto's sandworm skin, speaking in Fremen language] This is no good!

Leto: [spoken in Fremen language] This is all the good we may ever have.

Leto: [tearing] How many nights... I have sat on Dune, just like this, imagining a night, just like this, with... with my father. Just the two of us... talking and laughing. And how many nights I have gone to sleep on the cold floor of the sietch, dreaming of his arms around me, sheltering me from everything I was afraid of, everything I could not understand!

The Preacher: [pause] Are you still a good fremin?

Leto: Yes.

The Preacher: Then will you permit a blind man to go out into the desert, and find peace on his own terms?

Leto: Not yet.

Leto: To know the future is to be trapped by it, Grandmother. My father knew it but he couldn't escape it. I want more freedom than that! A universe of surprises, that is what I pray for.

Lady Jessica Atreides: Is such a universe possible for someone like you?

Leto: Possible? Yes. But is it desireable? I have a difficult decision to make, Grandmother. Do I accpet the Atreides mystic, dress myself in our myths, live for my subjects and die for them? Or do I choose another path? A golden path? One that may change me, may change human destiny forever?

Lady Jessica Atreides: I don't understand.

Leto: No, I know you don't. Because you do not understand time.

Lady Jessica Atreides: I can help you, Leto.

Leto: Oh, on the contrary, Grandmother. It is I who will help you.

[using the Voice]

[repeated line]

Leto: My skin is not my own.

Wensicia: You insolent bastard!

Farad'n Corrino: Let's not discuss your weaknesses now, mother.

Irulan: I am his wife!

Chani: You have his name! I am the one he calls wife!

Irulan: Must you insist on sneaking away like this?

Ghanima: I still feel him

[Leto]

Ghanima: , Irulan, his presence; sometimes I even think I can hear his laughter in the wind.

Irulan: Mocking your decision to marry Farad'n I hope?

Ghanima: Why should he mock it?

Irulan: I cannot stand by and let you be used as a pawn in Alia's schemes.

Ghanima: Is that what you think? That I'm being used? That I've agreed to this marriage as part of some conspiracy with Alia?

Irulan: No, but I know you Ghani, there is more to your decision than anyone else believes.

Ghanima: Alia wants my grandmother back, Farad'n is simply the means.

Irulan: But what do you want?

Ghanima: Farad'n's blood on the wedding sheets, not mine.

Alia: We will have a corner on the scarcest commodity in the universe!

Lady Jessica Atreides: You will have a corner in hell!

Chani: ...I suddenly feel like we have so little time.

Paul Atreides: We have eternity.

Chani: You have eternity. I have only now.

Fremen: They say the price on your head keeps going up.

Stilgar: Then I say unto you, send men to summon worms! And we shall go to Arkeen to collect.

Lady Jessica Atreides: I could have killed you.

Farad'n Corrino: It wouldn't have been that easy.

[he slips away]

Farad'n Corrino: ...I didn't truly think it was possible, and then my mind melted away. I gave up fighting you, and it happened.

Lady Jessica Atreides: It wasn't me you were fighting.

Farad'n Corrino: It was myself. All that I've learned, all the nonsense I've imprisoned myself with - I feel... I feel like I'm being reborn, like I'm standing on the threshold of something extraordinary.

Lady Jessica Atreides: Para-Bindu balance, Farad'n. But only on the threshold.

Farad'n Corrino: [chuckles] Patience?

Lady Jessica Atreides: Yes, patience. Remember, it's one thing to gain control of your perceptions, quite another to gain control of your desires.

Farad'n Corrino: And if I succeed?

Lady Jessica Atreides: You'll find reality to be quite a bit different than you thought.