I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. (beginning of Prologue) - Octavia E. Butler

Lilith might be strong enough now to handle troublemakers herself, but she did not want to do that unless she had to. It would not help the people become a community, and if they could not unite, nothing else they did would matter.

Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.

We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.
So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.