339 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

You can’t come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time. After a while, though, things will fall into place.

Let go of me.” It smoothed its tentacles again. “Be grateful, Joe. I’m not going to let go of you.

Belief will not save you. Only actions Guided and shaped By belief and knowledge Will save you. Belief Initiates and guides action – Or it does nothing.

There are so many interesting times we could have visited.

I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.

All successful life is Adaptable, Opportunistic, Tenacious, Interconnected, and Fecund. Understand this. Use it. Shape God.

Stumbling across the truth isn’t the same as making things up.

All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.

I can’t unfind you,” he said.