Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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.
Octavia E. Butler
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Fifth Harmony
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Maggie Stiefvater
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Kumail Nanjiani
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.
Octavia E. Butler
