Toni Morrison: Quotes about love

Toni Morrison was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Something that is loved is never lost.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.”

Toni Morrison book Jazz

Source: Jazz

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”

Toni Morrison

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

Toni Morrison book Jazz

Source: Jazz

“guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

“My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved (1987), Ch. 1

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Love is never any better than the lover.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“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.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it… It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.”

Toni Morrison

Beloved (1987)

“They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations…”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love… You can't own a human being.”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

“You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

Toni Morrison book Paradise

Source: Paradise

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

Toni Morrison book Jazz

Jazz