Parable of the Talents
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“You belong to me. You'll do what I say or you'll suffer for it" (pg. 135)”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn't find anything to complain about.”
Source: Kindred
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
“A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower
“There's no narcotic like exhaustion.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
Source: Parable of the Talents
“I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.”
Source: Bloodchild: And Other Stories
Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.”
Source: Wild Seed
“To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.”
Source: Imago
Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.”
Source: Parable of the Talents: A Novel
“We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.”
Source: Bloodchild and Other Stories
“Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?”
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.”
Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“I lost an arm on my last trip home.”
Source: Kindred
“You are horror and beauty in rare combination.”
Source: Dawn
“Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
Source: Parable of the Sower
“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
“He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.”
Source: Kindred
“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
Source: Fledgling: A Novel
Source: Parable of the Talents