To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.

Toni Morrison
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  1. When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. - Siri Hustvedt

  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. - Zadie Smith

  4. The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. - Clare Francis

  5. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come... - A.E. Housman

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  1. You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think...

  2. She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

  3. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

  4. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door?...

  5. Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to...

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