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“After Paul D reminded her of how many feet she had, Sethe rummaged among the shoes of strangers to find the ice skates she was sure were there.”

“Denver tended her, watched her sound sleep, listened to her labored breathing and, out of love and a breakneck possessiveness that charged her, hid like a personal blemish Beloved’s incontinence.”

Denver wants to keep Beloved in the house so she does everything to make her convenient. She wants people near her and she’s always loved the ghost in the house.

“They were not holding hands, but their shadows were”

Because it’s a ghost story and they don’t want to admit they’re together!

“The songs he knew from Georgia were flat-headed nails for pounding and pounding and pounding.”

“But what he did being three more Sweet Home men and punched the glowing iron out of Sethe’s eyes, leaving two open wells that did not reflect firelight.”

“Her past had been like her present—intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness,she used the little energy left her for pondering color.”

Studying her opening line in English, loved this one too.