"Your love is too thick," he said...
"Too thick?" she said..."Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
-a line from Beloved by Toni Morrison
I whole heartily agree. The book Beloved is a book that I have not read in its entirety, but understanding of it so far is that it is about a slave woman who kills one of her children to prevent it from having to experience the horrible life she experienced. She only did this after she had managed to escape with all her children to safety and was found by the "Schoolteacher" she had run from. When she saw his hat approaching her family, she hid her kids, and killed one of them. I'm not sure if she meant to kill all of them though.... Like I said I haven't read the whole book. I agree with the women, Sethe, who is speaking above and I feel like I understand her to some extent. I can barely manage to fathom what she went through, but I can grasp loving something so much you would do anything to protect it even if that meant taking its life. Thankfully, I have never been in such a position and I doubt I ever will be, again, thankfully. I have to admit this little line makes me feel a little better about my creepy self and my love for my friends. I just called a friend to creepily and randomly tell her I love her because it is true and I felt compelled to do so. While some may say my love is too thick, I can respond with a thoughtful line of acclaimed literary work to contradict their statement.
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