A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.


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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the sou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I d...
TOBEY MAGUIRE
If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
GREGORY MAGUIRE
Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere -...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the crack...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a st...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became tr...
TONI MORRISON
Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
TONI MORRISON
How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON
Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON
Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON
All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON
It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON
How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON
Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Lov...
TONI MORRISON
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman w...
TONI MORRISON
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
TONI MORRISON
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an in...
TONI MORRISON
..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for...
TONI MORRISON
There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the f...
TONI MORRISON
You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
TONI MORRISON
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
TONI MORRISON
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE
Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE
I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE
I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON
He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON
My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON
Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
TONI MORRISON
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
TONI MORRISON
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
TONI MORRISON
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
TONI MORRISON