“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“People were mincing words for me now, making me a word puree. As if I didn’t have the teeth to bite into the apple.”
― Orange World and Other Stories
― Orange World and Other Stories
“Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
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