We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
Octavia ButlerAll that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.
Octavia ButlerThe child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
Octavia Butler