Toni Morrison

Paul D could tell me and my brain would go right ahead and take it and never say, No thank you. I don't want to know or have to remember that. I have other things to do: worry for example about tomorrow, [...] about age and sickness, not to speak of love.
But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, left alone plan for, the next day.
[...] one more step was the most she could see of the future. Other people went crazy, why couldn't she?