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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

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Louisa’s Quotes

“When your own mother pretends you don't exist, it is like you are dead”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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“I walk through the supermarket convinced that this time will be the time live up to my trolley, and it never is, and the fridge is where all those good intentions go to die, where they stay until I fish their grim corpses out of the bottom of the vegetable drawer.”
― Ella Risbridger, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For

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“We blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.” In this view, happiness is impossible, because of all these goals. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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“I wonder about choices. How we resent them, and how we regret them—even as we watch them grow.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

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“I use the word misandry to mean a negative feeling towards the entirety of the male sex. This negative feeling might be understood as a spectrum that ranges from simple suspicion to outright loathing, and is generally expressed by an impatience towards men and a rejection of their presence in women’s spaces. And when I say ‘the male sex’ I mean all the cis men who have been socialised as such, and who enjoy their male privilege without ever calling it into question, or not enough (yes, misandry is a demanding and elitist concept).”
― Pauline Harmange, I Hate Men

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