Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

📖 Toni Morrison

🌍 American | 👨‍💼 Novelist

🎂 February 18, 1931 – ⚰️ August 5, 2019

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Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved" explores deep and complex themes, particularly through the lens of memory and trauma. The characters engage in conversations that can often appear disjointed or confusing, filled with incomplete thoughts and daydreams. This reflects a deeper emotional state where the characters struggle to articulate their experiences fully, highlighting the richness and intensity of their psychological landscapes. The fragmented dialogue captures the essence of their lives, marked by pain...

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Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was. Not like rain, but like a secret.

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Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was {...} School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken...

In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be persuasive throughout; that the order and quietitude of every day life...

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 children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to...

Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if...

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again. — Durgesh Satpathy

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off. — Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

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One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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