Quotes From "The Faded Sun Trilogy" By C.J. Cherryh

If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game C.J. Cherryh

He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live. C.J. Cherryh

Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here? C.J. Cherryh