Kindred Quotes

“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred.

... Like the Nazis, antebellum whites had known quite a bit about torture - quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!”
― James Hauenstein

“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“Your soulmate never makes you chase them; they might challenge your idleness or lack of initiative, but they never play games with you. You never really count who contributes more in a soulmate relationship. The giving process happens naturally and intuitively, balanced on both sides.This creates abundance and there is never any scarcity in the relationship.
True love means reciprocity. Both of you recognise each other as the One. There is no perfect person, but there is a person who is perfect for you. What makes them perfect for you, apart from their wonderful qualities and suiting personality traits, is the mere fact that they chose YOU.”
― R.P. Heaven, Awakening Ignited

“The whip scars on my back weren't real to him. People's pain didn't matter to him unless he was the cause of it. Butler, 1979, p. 125”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Their love was a fire, gleaming and crackling Butler,1979, p. 147”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Why do you keep trying to kill yourself?" I hadn't expected an answer so I was surprised when she spoke quietly.
"Most of the time living just isn't worth the trouble.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“You belong to me. You'll do what I say or you'll suffer for it" (pg. 135)”
― Octavia Butler