Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
Toni MorrisonMots clés love beloved toni-morrison
It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
Toni MorrisonMots clés life death beloved toni-morrison
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
Toni MorrisonMots clés hope miracle miracles trust magic beloved toni-morrison
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
Toni MorrisonMots clés happiness human-condition
I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight.
Toni MorrisonCome on, girl. Don't cry," whispered Frank. "Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. It's just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts." Cee wasn't sobbing anymore, but the tears were still running down her cheeks.
Toni MorrisonRisky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
Toni MorrisonYou looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question. The mast had said, "You are ugly people." They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance. "Yes," they had said. "You are right.
Toni MorrisonWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
Toni MorrisonThere in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. 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. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. She forgot lust and simple caring for. She regarded love as possessive mating, and romance as the goal of the spirit. It would be for her a well-spring from which she would draw the most destructive emotions, deceiving the lover and seeking to imprison the beloved, curtailing freedom in every way." -- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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