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My daddy’s face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche; his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale, cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie, hiding currents of gelid thoughts that eddy in darkness.
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"Thus the banquet was the exultation, the harmony, the acceptance of physical frailty, joy in the termination of misery. Laughter, relief, a steep hunger for food."
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 143). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 143). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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"...My Maker will take care of me. I know He will. I know He will. Besides, it don’t make no difference about this old earth. There is sure to be a glory. Only thing I miss sometimes is that rainbow. But like I say, I don’t recollect it much anymore.”
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 131). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 131). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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"That was true. She wouldn’t kill us, or laugh a terrible laugh at us, or throw a bottle at us."
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 105). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 105). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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“Oh.” He laughed the grown-up getting-ready-to-lie laugh. A heh-heh we knew well.
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 78). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 78). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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"If Cholly had stopped drinking, she would never have forgiven Jesus. She needed Cholly’s sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus."
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 42). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 42). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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"Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet."
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 26). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 26). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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"There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 6). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) (p. 6). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
