Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [601]

“It’s just a nasty old building on the outside,” he was saying of his new home. “You wouldn’t believe how great it looks once you go in, though.” — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 601

Note

A single ironic line that encapsulates the whole economy of this chapter’s outside world — squalor wrapped around something worth having, an exterior nobody would guess at. Keith’s boast doubles as a self-description, and Lauren records it without comment, letting the reader hear what he can’t.