Toni Morrison, Beloved Quotes
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.
Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed, " she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.
To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.
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.
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
God take what He would, " she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
