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"Joe is wondering about all this on an icy day in January. He is a long way from Virginia, and even longer from Eden."

-Morrison, Toni. Jazz (pg. 180)

"Floating toward him parallel to the fence is a black boy astride a mule."

-Morrison, Toni. Jazz (pg. 155)

"She buttoned her coat and left the drugstore and noticed, at the same moment as that Violet did, that it was spring. In the City."

Morrison, Toni. Jazz (pg. 114)

"The woman who avoided the streets let into her living room the woman who sat down in the middle of one."

Morrison, Toni. Jazz (pg. 73)

"Malvonne lived alone with newspapers and other people's stories printed in small books"

-Morrison, Toni. Jazz (pg. 40).

"I don't know who was more ambitious-the doomsayers or Violet-but it's hard to match the superstitious for great expectations."

-Toni Morrison "Jazz" (pg. 9).