Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [612]

I turned and looked at him and saw my father’s face, lighter-skinned, younger, thinner, but my father’s face, unmistakable. “He’s you,” I whispered. “Every time I look at you, I see him. Every time you look at him, you see yourself.” — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 612

Note

The physical recognition arrives before the words do, staged as a slow inventory of differences that all collapse back into sameness. The chiasmus in her whispered line — I see him / you see yourself — turns a family resemblance into a trap that closes from both sides.