“She was incapable of insulting us, because the words have to have meaning to hurt.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“The gifts we give say as much about us as the gifts we get and keep,”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
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