“I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to… — 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
“I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.” — 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 divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow." He leans over and… — 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
“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
“Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“She talked like that. But I understood what she meant. About having another you inside that isn't anything like you. Dorcas and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the… — 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
“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
“Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you… — 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
“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
“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
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to… — 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 Image
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 Image
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
