"I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies."
"If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to fury. How dare she love him? Hadn't she any sense at all? What was he supposed to do about that? Return it? How? What could his calloused hands produce to make her smile? What of his knowledge of the world and of life could be useful to her? What could his heavy arms and befuddled brain accomplish that would earn him his own respect, that would in turn allow him to accept her love?"
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Source: Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.84, Random House
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