...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 MorrisonShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
Toni MorrisonSay make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
Toni MorrisonIntimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
Toni Morrison