Quotes from book

Parable of the Sower

“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.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 65

“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 57

“Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There’s a world of things I don’t feel free to talk to anyone about.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 52

“People here in the neighborhood are saying she had no business going to Mars, anyway. All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can’t afford water, food, or shelter”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 17