Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [433]

Maybe they weren’t the same ones, but their intentions were the same: To take away what someone else has sweated to grow and very much needs. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 433

Note

A colon pivot that turns an uncertain identification into an indictment. “Sweated to grow” does the double duty of garden and livestock labor, and the flat declarative “very much needs” refuses euphemism — no “food insecurity,” just need. The capitalized “To” after the colon is an odd, stiff choice that reads like a written rule rather than a thought.