Quotes from Toni Morrison, Beloved

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

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.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.