...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthou…

Toni Morrison
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...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself. ✨ Toni Morrison (1987). Sula
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