Octavia E. Butler Citations
Octavia E. Butler: Citations en anglais
“She glanced at him. “What gods do you respect?”
“None.”
“And why not?”
“I help myself,” he said.”
Source: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 20)
“She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.”
Part IV “The Training Floor” chapter 9 (p. 242)
Dawn (1987)
“My ignorance wasn’t just annoying. It was dangerous.”
Source: Fledgling (2005), Chapter 13 (p. 126)
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
“I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 316
“You tend to resent people you’re afraid of.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 291
“The only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 143
“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 57
