4 Quotes & Sayings By Toni Maguire

Toni Maguire (born September 18, 1961) is an American author. Her novels are often set in the South and often focus on either white women or black men who are struggling with their identities. Her novels include "The Woman Who Walked Away", "A Natural History of the Senses", "The Street of Thieves", "A Million Little Pieces", "The Good Lord Bird", "Celeste", "The Language of Bees", "Saving June", and "Georgia".

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A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them. Toni Maguire
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We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself". Toni Maguire
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I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day. Toni Maguire