Octavia E. Butler frases e citações
Octavia E. Butler: Frases em inglês
“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
Fonte: Fledgling
“A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.”
Fonte: Mind of My Mind (1977), Chapter 5 (p. 344)
Fonte: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 392)
“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Variante: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Fonte: Parable of the Talents
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 381).
Adulthood Rites (1988)
Fonte: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 11 (p. 122)
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 4 (p. 329).
Adulthood Rites (1988)
“Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.”
Fonte: Kindred (1979), Chapter 3, “The Fall” section 5 (p. 81).
Fonte: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
Fonte: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 404)
Fonte: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 12 (p. 225)
“A tree cannot grow in its parents’ shadows.”
Fonte: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 82)
“Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.”
Fonte: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”
Fonte: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)
“We are born not with purpose, but with potential.”
Fonte: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 1 (p. 1)
“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”
“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 381)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
Fonte: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 239)