When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is no…

Toni Morrison
284 citations
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do. ✨ Toni Morrison (1987). Sula
Death
24

More Author Quotes

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
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 … ▶
you got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

Most Cited Authors

27

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

27

Curated Author Quotes

82 Unforgettable 🦇 Batman Quotes