“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
Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something? — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, ostensibly to avoid hurting her breasts but actually to keep… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back… — 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
“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
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of… — 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
“Little of that makes for love, but it does pump desire. The woman who churned a man's blood as she leaned all… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
![“She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Totally taken over by her anaconda love, she had no self left, no fears, no wants, no intelligence that was her own [...] Ruth…” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/948/toni-morrison-271_love_she-loved-nothing-in-the-world-except-th_2732287.jpg)
