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Toni Morrison

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  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    They were not holding hands, but their shadows were
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    There's a carnival in town. Thursday, tomorrow, is for coloreds and I got two dollars.

    Me and you and Denver gonna spend every penny of it. What you say?"

    "No" is what she said. At least what she started out saying (what would her boss say if she took a day off?), but even when she said it she was thinking how much her eyes enjoyed looking in his face.
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one. "Why?" he asked her. "Why you think you have to take up for her? Apologize for her? She's grown."

    "I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.

    A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing."
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay.
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    "Don't worry about her. She's a charmed child. From the beginning."

    "Is that right?"

    "Uh huh. Nothing bad can happen to her. Look at it. Everybody I knew dead or gone or dead and gone. Not her. Not my Denver.
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    "It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts."
  • Nataliahas quoted3 years ago
    Nothing was alive but her nipples and the little antelope.
  • evshirninahas quoted4 years ago
    who knew their manhood lay in their guns and were not even embarrassed by the knowledge that without gunshot fox would laugh at them.
  • Shweta Sarojhas quoted4 years ago
    Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead
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