If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
Octavia Butler...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
Octavia ButlerThe thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
Octavia Butler