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It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. They had looked at the world and back at their children, back at the world and back again at their children, and Sula knew that one clear young eye was all that kept the knife away from the throat's curve. — Toni Morrison

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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far. — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass.
Neither one had spoken a word. — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

Sula was wrong. Hell ain't things lasting forever. Hell is change. Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn't last. One day she wouldn't even have that. This very grief that had twisted her into a curve on the floor and flayed her would be gone. She would lose that too.
Why, even in hate here I am thinking of what Sula said. — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well ... I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71). — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable. — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

Originally, Sula opened with 'Except for World War II, nothing interfered with National Suicide Day.' With some encouragement I recognized that sentence as a false beginning." Falseness, in this case, meant abrupt. There was no lobby, as it were, where the reader could be situated before being introduced to the goings-on of the characters. — Toni Morrison

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The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell. — Toni Morrison

Sula Toni Morrison Quotes By Toni Morrison

Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs. — Toni Morrison