Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

by Octavia E. Butler

But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone.”

All people who know what it is to end should be allowed to continue if they can continue.

You and those who help you will give them the tools to create a civilization that will destroy itself as certainly as the pull of gravity will keep their new world in orbit around its sun.”