I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with mys… - Octavia E. Butler

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I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.

Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the very few African-American women in the field.

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Birth Name: Octavia Estelle Butler

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He didn’t look all right to me. “Has anyone gone for the doctor?”
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If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.

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