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Quotes from Kindred — Octavia Butler

1947–2006 United States

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7 quotes

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

Kindred (1979)

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.

Kindred (1979)

"There're are worse things than being dead." (p253)

Kindred (1979)

He didn’t look all right to me. “Has anyone gone for the doctor?”
“Marse Tom don’t hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.”

Kindred (1979)

There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one. (p124)

Kindred (1979)

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling. (p183)

Kindred (1979)

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. (beginning of Prologue)

Kindred (1979)

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