378 Quotes About Beloved
- Author Toni Morrison
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Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. (Paul D.)
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- Author Toni Morrison
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Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go.
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- Author Pipit Di
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sincere love that makes her beloved one happy
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- Author Suzanne Enoch
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Don’t cry,nyonda,” he murmured.Phillipa took a deep breath. “What does that mean, anyway? Nyonda?”His green gaze held hers. “It’s Swahili. It means ‘beloved.’” A small smile touched his mouth, and he brushed her cheek again. “You do know I love you, Phillipa. To an alarming degree.
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- Author Toni Morrison
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The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could take the next step: ask for some clarifying word; some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.
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- Author Laurence Galian
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Allâh as the Beloved in Sûfî literature, the ma'shûq, is always depicted with female iconography.
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- Author Toni Morrison
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A blessing she was reckless enough to take for granted, lean on, as though Sweet Home was one... A bigger fool never lived.
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- Author Mahmoud Darwish
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Don’t tell the beloved, you are Iand I am you, saythe opposite of that: we are two guestsof an excess, fugitive cloud.
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- Author Toni Morrison
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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous.
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