33 Quotes About Toni-morrison

Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it, let alone the fright of two creeping-off boys. Her past had been like her present—intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness, she used the little energy left her for pondering color.

If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?''Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth.

Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."Sixo

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

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.)

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.

A blessing she was reckless enough to take for granted, lean on, as though Sweet Home was one... A bigger fool never lived.