#sula

[herpsandbirds]

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii), family Sulidae, order Suliformes, Isla de la Plata, Ecuador

photograph by Libor Vaicenbacher

[hangsawoman]

covers for sula by toni morrison (1975 and 1987)

[alonglistofbirds]

[1710/10977] Brown booby - Sula leucogaster

Order: Suliformes Family: Sulidae (gannets and boobys)

Photo credit: Terence Alexander via Macaulay Library

[lets-get-lit]

They were solitary little girls whose loneliness was so profound it intoxicated them and sent them stumbling into Technicolored visions that always included a presence, a someone, who, quite like the dreamer, shared the delight of the dream. 

- Toni Morrison, Sula

[resetme]

— Sula, Toni Morrison

[chaoticsoft]

Toni Morrison, 1974.

Photographer: Waring Abbott

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Roman Balladine & Sula - The Secrets of Belly Dancing - Celestial Arts - 1972 (photos by Wlliam Cunningham)

[hitokoma86]

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

photo source

[hazel-core]

But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said…but you said…and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could you leave me when you knew me?

- Sula, Toni Morrison

[herpsandbirds]

can I request a blue-footed booy?

Yes, of course you can. Here's a few for you!

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii), family Sulidae, order Suliformes

Galapagos, Photograph by Wolfgang Kaehler

Galapagos, photograph by Tui De Roy

[hangsawoman]

how could you leave me when you knew me ??!!!!!

[alonglistofbirds]

[1461/10977] Blue-footed Booby - Sula nebouxii

Order: Suliformes Family: Sulidae (gannets and boobys)

Photo credit: Douglas Gimler via Macaulay Library

[whilereadingandwalking]

“The difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”—Toni Morrison (b. 2/18/31)

[feastofsnakes]

The Carnivorous Lamb / Go Tell It on the Mountain / Sula / Mathilda / The Gospel Singer / Lolita

Books starting after it's too late

[aponii1]

Toni Morrison is by new favorite author. This book is powerful the novel explores friendship, identity, and the complexities of human relationships. Set in the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, the story follows the lives of two childhood friends, Sula Peace and Nel Wright, as they navigate their way through the challenges and tragedies of growing up. Sula is a compelling and thought-provoking read that will stay with you long after you've finished it. (4/5)

My favorite quotes: “ Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”

“I sure did live in this world.' ‘Really? What have you got to show for it?' ‘Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.' ‘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.”

“It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”