While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.

    — Frank Herbert, from Dune

[“How much farther?” Caine asked.
“Soon,” Pack Leader said.] “The Darkness is near.

    — Michael Grant, from Gone

Lately, I’ve been leaning toward kindness.

    — Gillian Flynn, from Sharp Objects

We’ll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it’s time to stop.

    — Lauren DeStefano, from Sever

It’s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.

    — Miljenko Jergovic, from “The Gardener”, in Sarajevo Marlboro, translated by Stela Tomaševic

It was the strangest thing, but for the first time in a long time I almost felt serene.

    — Bill Bryson, from The Lost Continent