Top 47 Quotes About Love Toni Morrison
#1. I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#2. I eat kung pao chicken like it's going out of style, but I'm pretty sure I don't have an Asian cell in my body. I love Toni Morrison novels although I'm not black. I'm straight and I'm happily married. The reason I work here is because I think you deserve that, too.
Jodi Picoult
#3. A twenty-year-old man so in love with his mother he gave up five years of Sabbaths just to see her sit down for a change
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#4. You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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#5. You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
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#6. To get to a place where you could love anything you chose
not to need permission for desire
well now _that_ was freedom.
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#7. When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.
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#8. Guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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#9. Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence.
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#10. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.
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#11. I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.
Mohsin Hamid
#12. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations ...
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#15. He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, ostensibly to avoid hurting her breasts but actually to keep her from having to touch or feel too much of him. While
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#17. 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.
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#18. He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.
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#20. Don't love her too much. Don't. Maybe it's still in her the thing that makes it all right to kill her children. I have to tell her. I have to protect her.
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#21. I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.
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#22. Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
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#23. Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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#24. We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.
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#25. Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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#26. You want a real thing?" asked Alice. "I'll tell you a real one. You got anything left to you to love, anything at all, do it.
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#27. Gimme hate, Lord," he whimpered. "I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it ... It's too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain't it heavy? Jesus? Ain't love heavy?
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#28. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another
physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
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#29. What kind of love is it that requires an angel and only an angel for its commitment?
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#30. You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.
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#31. And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.
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#32. I don't want to be free of you because I am alive only with you.
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#33. My melancholy thoughts are back.
But I still love the idea of love.
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#35. Wicked People Love Wickedly, Violent People Love Violently, Weak People Love Weakly, Stupid People Love Stupidly, But The Love Of A Free Man Is Never Safe ...
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#36. Michael was a purveyor of exotics, a typical anthropologist, a cultural orphan who sought other cultures he could love without risk or pain.
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#38. I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
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#39. Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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#40. The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.
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#41. If they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
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#42. My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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#43. I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?'
'I'm looking now.
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#44. Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."
He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. "You your best thing, Sethe, You are." His holding fingers are holding hers.
"Me? Me?
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#45. I didn't even know his name. And if I didn't know his name then there is nothing I did know and I have known nothing ever at all since the one thing I wanted was to know his name so how could he help but leave me since he was making love to a woman who didn't even know his name.
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#46. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
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#47. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
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