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A review by niakayjones
Beloved by Toni Morrison
3.0
Passages that stood out to me:
• “But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world.”
• “For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love.”
• “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
• “Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers--not the defined.”
• “The bigger Beloved got, the smaller Sethe became; the brighter Beloved's eyes, the more those eyes that used never to look away became slits of sleeplessness.”
• “By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water too and what it is down there. The rest is weather.”
• “But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world.”
• “For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love.”
• “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
• “Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers--not the defined.”
• “The bigger Beloved got, the smaller Sethe became; the brighter Beloved's eyes, the more those eyes that used never to look away became slits of sleeplessness.”
• “By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water too and what it is down there. The rest is weather.”