Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

They never miss a chance to relive the good old days or to tell kids how great it’s going to be when the country gets back on its feet and good times come back. Yeah.

“I know what it is to be left alone. This is no world to be alone in.”

There has to be more that we can do, a better destiny that we can shape. Another place. Another way. Something!

they knew the cops liked to solve cases by “discovering” evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty. Best to give them nothing.

I didn’t know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn’t believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.”