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“that way past the Change of Life, desire in them had suddenly become enormous, greedy, more savage than when they were fifteen, and that it embarrassed them and made them sad; that secretly they longed to die-to be quit of it-that sleep was more precious to them than any waking day” — Toni Morrison

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that way past the Change of Life, desire in them had suddenly become enormous, greedy, more savage than when they were fifteen, and that it embarrassed them and made them sad; that secretly they longed to die-to be quit of it-that sleep was more precious to them than any waking day
— Toni Morrison