Octavia Butler Short Quotes

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My last night of childhood began with a visit home.

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Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.

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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

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The Destiny of Earthseed
Is to take root among the stars.

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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

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If you don't care about my people, why should I care about yours?

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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

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Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

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Consider—
We are born
Not with purpose,
But with potential.

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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

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To survive,
Know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.

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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

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Souls! When have you seen your own soul — that you're so certain you have one?

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Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.

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We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.

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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

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If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.

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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.

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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.

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He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.

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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

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Your God doesn't care about you at all, Travis said.
All the more reason to care about myself and others.

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When it comes to strangers with guns, I told her, I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.

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Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

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I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

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I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.

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