Toni Morrison Quotes

I'm not good at opening up with people.

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

I don't like talking about my relationships.

I find it really hard to be close to anybody.

If you do get to know me, I'll tell everything to you. But I don't want to tell everything to the wrong people.

Don't let men fool you... we all want love; we just know that it can leave us very vulnerable, and we seek a woman who understands and protects that with her life.

A line drawn with love can make us as vulnerable as what the line depicts.

I cannot just blindly love someone.

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.

We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.