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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me. - [Self] Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing. - [Mothers] The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend. - [Loneliness] 124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom. - Beloved [Books (First Lines)] Sth, I know that woman. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. Know her husband, too. He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. When the woman, her name is Violet, went to the funeral to see the girl and to cut her dead face they threw her to the floor and out of the church. She ran, then, through all that snow, and when she got back to her apartment she took the birds from their cages and set them out the windows to freeze or fly, including the parrot that said, "I love you." - Jazz [Books (First Lines)] They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are seventeen miles from a town which has ninety miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the Convent, but there is time and the day has just begun. - Paradise [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The North Carolina Mutual life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock. - Song of Solomon [Books (First Lines)] I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. . . . Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. - Sula [Death] In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood. - Sula [Books (First Lines)] Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. - The Bluest Eye [Books (First Lines)]
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