Toni Morrison Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Miracle, Magic

• She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Lying, Color

• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Maturity

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

• They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

  Toni Morrison

  Summer, Girlfriend, Laughter

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Night, Breathing

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

• The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Vitality, Language

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

• The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Needs, Care

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