When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses – young loving.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, stupid people love stupidly, weak people love weakly . . .” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I didn't even know his name. And if I didn't know his name then there is nothing I did know and I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And no, they ain’t in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you anymore that he is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Young people, Lord. Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“When they fall in love with a city it is for forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share
