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Quotes from Adulthood Rites — Octavia Butler

1947–2006 United States

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

Adulthood Rites (1988)

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

Adulthood Rites (1988)

“Yori, Human purpose isn’t what you say it is or what I say it is. It’s what your biology says it is—what your genes say it is.”

Adulthood Rites (1988)

“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”
“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”

Adulthood Rites (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Octavia Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.