Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the loverโs inward eyes.
Toni MorrisonIt would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
Toni Morrison