339 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn’t quite break.

I’m still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.

When it comes to strangers with guns,” I told her, “I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.” She.

Seize change. Use it. Adapt and grow.

In six years, she had gone from nothing to nothing.

Help us to make America great again.

Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism.

Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?