# Quote — Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed

> She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.

- Author: [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md)
- Book: [Wild Seed](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed.md)
- Page: 18
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Wild_Seed_(1980)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed/she-was-too

## More from this book

> Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.

p. 100 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed/short-lived-people-people.md)

> He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense—as it often is.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed/he-was-surprised.md)

> “What will they do when they have only the herbs” he asked her.
>
> “Live or die as best they can,” she said. “Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.”

p. 247 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed/what-will-they.md)