339 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

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.

Even my mother said that things were improving. Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for then, He didn't get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.

The problem, of course, with throwing people away is that they don't go away. They stay in the society that turned its back on them. And whether that society likes it or not, they find all sorts of things to do.

Good stories are good stories, no matter how they're categorized.

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

Read every day and learn from what you read.

It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.

She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she seemed to die a little.

We collected all the bones we could find, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years ago. It was the most beautiful thing she owned."A thing like that should serve the living," Bankole said when she offered it."You are living," Natividad said. "I like you. I wish I could have met your sister.