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“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

“Obierika was a man who thought about things.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“That "all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“And we the people are so vulnerable. Our bodies are shot with mortality. Our legs are fear and our arms are time. These chill humors seep through our capillaries, weighting each cell with an icy dab of nonbeing, and that dab grows and swells and sucks the cell dry. That is why physical courage is so important—it fills, as it were, the holes—and why it is so invigorating. The least brave act, chance taken and passage won, makes you feel loud as a child.”
― Annie Dillard