
Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.”
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“We are as committed to the trade as your body is to breathing.
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“This is how we grow—how we’ve always grown. We’ll take the knowledge of shipgrowing with us so that our descendants will be able to leave when the time comes. We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world.”
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
understood your body because it is ooloi.
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“You were like your world. You needed time to heal.
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
she had decided that reality was whatever happened, whatever she perceived.
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
She preferred becoming accustomed to any number of ugly faces to remaining in her cage.