Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.