“I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.”

— Octavia E. Butler , book Patternmaster

Source: Patternmaster (1976), Chapter 4 (p. 689)

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