The Moronic Inferno

Quotes

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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 2 | Loc. 50-52  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 06:54 PM

Opening and closing her jacket, her hand touched the long scar across her abdomen. She had acquired it somehow between her second and third Awakenings, had examined it fearfully, wondering what had been done to her. What had she lost or gained, and why? And what else might be done? She did not own herself any longer. Even her flesh could be cut and stitched without her consent or knowledge. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 4 | Loc. 77-79  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 06:56 PM

So she refused them, gave them no answers, ignored the tests, physical and mental, that they tried to put her through. She did not know what they would do to her. She was terrified that she would be hurt, punished. But she felt she had to risk bargaining, try to gain something, and her only currency was cooperation. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
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We collected as many as we could. The ones we didn’t find in time died of injury, disease, hunger, radiation, cold. … We found them later.” She believed him. Humanity in its attempt to destroy itself had made the world unlivable. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
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“I can only say that your people have something we value. You may begin to know how much we value it when I tell you that by your way of measuring time, it has been several million years since we dared to interfere in another people’s act of self-destruction. Many of us disputed the wisdom of doing it this time. We thought … that there had been a consensus among you, that you had agreed to die.” “No species would do that!” “Yes. Some have. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 17 | Loc. 287-89  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:09 PM

He let her hide there for a while, let her wash and be alone and wallow in self-pity and self-contempt. She could not remember ever having been so continually afraid, so out of control of her emotions. Jdahya had done nothing, yet she cowered. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 18 | Loc. 307-11  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:10 PM

My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.” “I wouldn’t call it a talent. A curse, maybe. But how could your relative know about that from just … observing.” “Maybe perceiving would be a better word,” he said. “There’s much more involved than sight. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 19 | Loc. 330-32  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:12 PM

She tried to imagine herself surrounded by beings like him and was almost overwhelmed by panic. As though she had suddenly developed a phobia—something she had never before experienced. But what she felt was like what she had heard others describe. A true xenophobia—and apparently she was not alone in it. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 25 | Loc. 427  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:19 PM

After … however many days it had been, she felt none of the old panic; only relief at somehow having finally shed it. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 27 | Loc. 449-51  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:21 PM

“Back into your cage, Lilith?” Jdahya asked softly. She stared at him through the hole, realized at once that he was trying to provoke her, make her overcome her fear. It would not have worked if he had not been so right. She was retreating into her cage—like a zoo animal that had been shut up for so long that the cage had become home. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 27 | Loc. 462-66  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:22 PM

Your diet in particular encouraged your body not to grow cancers while your genetic inclination to grow them was corrected.” “It has been corrected, then?” “Yes. Correcting genes have been inserted into your cells, and your cells have accepted and replicated them. Now you won’t grow cancers by accident.” That, she thought, was an odd qualification, but she let it pass for the moment. 
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Dawn: 1 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy) (Octavia E. Butler)
- Highlight on Page 29 | Loc. 488-96  | Added on Sunday, October 08, 2017, 08:25 PM

“We’ve strengthened your immune system, increased your resistance to disease in general.” “How? Something else done to our genes?” He said nothing. She let the silence lengthen until she was certain he would not answer. This was one more thing they had done to her body without her consent and supposedly for her own good. “We used to treat animals that way,” she muttered bitterly. “What?” he said. “We did things to them—inoculations, surgery, isolation—all for their own good. We wanted them healthy and protected—sometimes so we could eat them later. “ His tentacles did not flatten to his body, but she got the impression he was laughing at her. “Doesn’t it frighten you to say things like that to me?” he asked. “No,” she said. “It scares me to have people doing things to me that I don’t understand.” “You’ve been given health.