This book is the epitome of brilliance.
It is finally mine.
Now time to party hardy with my study guide.
“It was a new thought, having a self to look out for and preserve. And it might not have occurred to her if she hadn’t met Nelson Lord leaving his grandmother’s house as Denver entered it to pay a thank you for a half pie. All he did was smile and say, “Take care of yourself, Denver,” but she heard it as though it were what language was made for. The last time he spoke to her his words blocked up her ears. Now they opened her mind.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“Out there were small things scratched and sometimes touched. Where words could be spoken that would close your ears shut. Where, if you were alone, feeling could overtake you and stick to you like a shadow. Out there where there were places in which things so bad had happened that when you went near them it would happen again.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“She said she was always a little scared of my daddy. He was too good, she said. From the beginning, she said, he was too good for the world. Scared her. She thought, He’ll never make it through nothing.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“That’s the way I used to see them in my dreams, laughing, their short fat legs running up the hill. Now all I can see is their backs walking down the railroad tracks. Away from me. Always away from me.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“I didn’t understand it then. I thought you were mad with me. And now I know that if you was, you ain’t now because you came back here to me and I was right all along: there is no world outside my door.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there where no one could hurt them. Over there. Outside this place, where they would be safe.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understand could ever be.”
Beloved, Toni Morrison
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