Children of Dune (2003)

Jessica Brooks: Ghanima Atreides

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• Ghanima : 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.