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“She was incapable of insulting us, because the words have to have meaning to hurt.”
― Dot Hutchison, 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.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“The gifts we give say as much about us as the gifts we get and keep,”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye