Isabel Anderson

“Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“It was the feeling of not wanting to live in the world, even if it was the only place to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“THERE IS a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up; holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind—wrapped tight like skin. Then there is a loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive, on its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one’s own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved