36 quotes found
“What's fair ain't necessarily right.”
“You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.”
“The best thing she was, was her children.”
“God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.”
“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”
“More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.”
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eye...”
“She knew Paul D was adding something to her lifesomething she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearab...”
“Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.”
“Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.”
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
“Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.”
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy i...”
“The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.”
“Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mi...”
“No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.”
“Jump, if you want to, cause Ill catch you, girl. Ill catch you fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, Ill hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. Im not saying this because I need a ...”
“God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.”
“I was talking about time. It's so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some thins you forget. Other things you...”
“Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. "You your best thing, Sethe, Yo...”
“You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.”
