Having strength Quote by Octavia E. Butler

““But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.””

Octavia E. Butler

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“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.”

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“Se sono tuoi, stabilisci tu le regole. A chi importa che cosa ne pensano i giocattoli? Spazza via l'intera famiglia di un giocattolo, poi…

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“Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread…

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“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”

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“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question what he does with any of it. Okay. That works. That Old Testament God doesn’t violate the way things are now. But that God sounds a lot like Zeus—a super-powerful man, playing with his toys the way my…

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“Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self shapes. Self…

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“It was milk that had sickened her. Animal milk! These people cooked many things with animal milk!”

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