Seed to Harvest Quotes

“They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“For myself …In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest

“She glanced at him. “What gods do you respect?” “None.” “And why not?” “I help myself,” he said.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest

“(The water shortage had hurt desert settlement even as the desert sun began to be used to combat the fuel shortage.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“Haven’t you seen the men slaves in this country who are used for breeding? They are never permitted to learn what it means to be a man. They are not permitted to care for their children.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“She served her people by giving them relief from pain and sickness. Also, she enriched them by allowing them to spread word of her abilities to neighboring people. She was an oracle. A woman through whom a god spoke. Strangers paid heavily for her services. They paid her people, then they paid her. That was as it should have been. Her people could see that they benefited from her presence, and that they had reason to fear her abilities.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“DORO DISCOVERED THE WOMAN by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“What was he, he wondered, that he could have anything at all but an end?”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest: The Complete Patternist Series

“It was milk that had sickened her. Animal milk! These people cooked many things with animal milk!”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest

“too. A woman should have something of her own.” Doro”
― Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest