Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.

Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.

Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?