She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. (Toni Morrison)

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Toni Morrison

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