Dream Quote by Toni Morrison

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.”

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“Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense?”

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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he…

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“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”

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“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”

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“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it’s not a twinkle, it’s more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they can’t throb anymore, when they can’t hold…

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