He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth. — Octavia E. Butler

“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”

“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”

If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?

“Yori, Human purpose isn’t what you say it is or what I say it is. It’s what your biology says it is—what your genes say it is.”