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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, wh...more

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How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they d...more

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We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

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She is dead now, so I can say that she laughed like us, played like us and her adult life turned out okay- so I heard. But then when we were all twelv...more

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You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgemen...more

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I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, hones...more

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She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The min...more

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And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He his in its breast, fingered its earth for ...more

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Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he to...more

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if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

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Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having ...more

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Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure yo...more

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In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your f...more

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We will be judged by how well we love.

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