It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness. - Frank Herbert

O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.

I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I’ll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh and know myself as once I was. The root is there. Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But all things a man can do are mine. Any act of mine may do it. — THE GHOLA SPEAKS ALIA’S COMMENTARY