SULA QUOTES

“She was a friend of my mind. She gathered me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” – Nel about Sula

“Our heads are just houses for the dead. They hold them up forever, talking about the same thing over and over.” – Plum

“Let others wallow in disgrace and guilt. I stand and fight. I stand and fight.” – Sula

“Lonely, ain’t it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” – Sula

“When you gone to get married? Never. Me and Nel is going to be friends forever, like we already is.” – Sula

“Can’t nobody fly with all that [expletive]. Wanna fly you got to give up the [expletive] that weighs you down.” – Sula

“You too old to travel now. Can’t be no rolling stone. Folks don’t like rolling stones.” – Eva about Sula

“Like any other artist with no art form, she became dangerous.” – Narrator on Sula

“Their anger was beautiful to her because there wasn’t any of it in Sula.” – Narrator on Sula

“It’s about time, bro’. It’s about time.” – Ajax to Sula

“You don’t have to love me. But you will. She did.” – Sula

“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an equal and opposite reaction to the arrogance of the people who couldn’t see that she was different, or who treated her as different.” – Narrator on Sula

“I walk down the street and somebody thinks I’m crazy. Ought to be out of the street, they say. Some stares around here are someplace ridiculous.” – Sula LEUKE VERJAARDAG QUOTES

“We was girls together. O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.” It was a fine cry – loud and long-but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. – Nel about Sula

“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain’t safe in a family of men.” – Sula

“Wrecked minds can be full of valuable things, but with this one it was nothing. Nothing of value in it.” – Eva on Plum

“Love is never any better than the lover. Weak people make trouble for themselves and then they blame everybody else.” – Nel

“All that time, I thought I was missing Jude.” – Nel

“You know how it is, always wanting something extra.” – Sula

“The last day of that friendship was like the first.” – Narrator on Sula and Nel

“It was a fine cry-loud and long-but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.” – Narrator on Nel’s cry

“She found herself suddenly dizzy with possibility.” – Narrator on Sula

“When I sit down and look at the wonderful flowers, I find it hard to believe there aren’t fairies hiding them.” – Sula

“I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.” – Sula