R E Butler Quotes

Are you sure you guys will all…fit?"
The looks on his brothers' faces had Orion almost laughing loudly, but he held himself in check so he didn't embarrass Syd or make her think she couldn't ask them questions. But he couldn't help but smile at Sterling's proud grin and Crux's worried frown. Sterling clearly took the question as a compliment, while Crux was most likely now wondering if it was possible. ~ R.E. Butler

He smirked. "It's my wolf.He's trying to claw through my skin to get to you."

She shook her head and narrowed her eyes. "I don't believe that for a second. Your wolf is a sweetheart."

He could picture his wolf preening and grinning like an idiot at her compliment. ~ R.E. Butler

She gave his fake boob a poke. "What the hell is in here?"
He laughed and pulled the top down part of the way to reveal a grapefruit. She groaned onto her hands.
"Hey, I know it's been a while since I've seen a real tit up close, but I think I remember the basic shape. What would you have used?"
"Oh, hell, Michael,I have no idea what a man uses to stuff a maid's uniform. Where did you get it anyways?"
Another of his shit-eating grins lit his face. "From the plus sized section of the lingerie store in Sweedesboro. I'm a woman's extra large." He was so proud of the fact that she laughed until her side ached. ~ R.E. Butler

Cole?" Sydney asked. Alyssa said, "Now that we know for sure it's a boy, I'm trying out names to see what sounds good.I like Cole."
Dante snarled. "No way. You are not naming my son Cole Stone. ~ R.E. Butler

He didn't want just one morning with her, just one dawn breaking across the horizon. He wanted every dawn forever, every night, and the hours in between. ~ R.E. Butler

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Astarte said the jacket reminded her of an ancient demon called The Judge, who separated the righteous from the wicked - and then burned the righteous. ~ R.E. Vance

I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and zealotry are irrational states of mind. ~ Octavia E. Butler

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP. ~ Otis Redding

A partner must be biologically interesting, attractive to us, and you are fascinating. You are horror and beauty in rare combination. In a very real way, you've captured us, and we can't escape. But you're more than only the composition and the workings of your bodies. You are your personalities, your cultures. ~ Octavia E. Butler

In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing. ~ Octavia E. Butler

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. ~ Octavia E. Butler

neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' ~ Diana Gabaldon

Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change - Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving - forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait. ~ Octavia E. Butler

The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind ... ~ Octavia E. Butler

When I was older, I decided that getting a rejection slip was like being told your child was ugly. You got mad and didn't believe a word of it. Besides, look at all the really ugly literary children out there in the world being published and doing fine! ~ Octavia E. Butler

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. ~ Octavia E. Butler

I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen. ~ Michael Stipe

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested. ~ Octavia E. Butler

It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction is not formulaic. ~ Octavia E. Butler

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn. ~ Octavia E. Butler

how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power. ~ Octavia E. Butler

You are a good man," she had observed contentedly. "And it has been too long since I had this." He was surprised ~ Octavia E. Butler

I was terrified of taking the G.R.E. ~ Dana Goodyear

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?' ~ Octavia E. Butler

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war. ~ Octavia E. Butler

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Look closely upon your shadow, it too is filled full with your sins, just as you are. It's silence of them does not mean it has forgiven your." - R.E. Fisher ~ R.E. Fisher

Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Purpose
Unifies us:
It focuses our dreams,
Guides our plans,
Strengthens our efforts.
Purpose
Defines us,
Shapes us,
And offers us
Greatness. ~ Octavia E. Butler

I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan. ~ Corin Tucker

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, ... an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. ~ Octavia E. Butler