Status Updates From Beloved

“She will forgo the most violent of sunsets, stars as fat as dinner plates and all the blood of autumn and settle for the palest yellow if it comes from her Beloved.”

“The original hunger” - Denver’s hunger for companionship and the need to love someone

“Free North. Magical North. Welcoming, benevolent North.”

Paul D., like so many others, wanted to believe he’d be safe up North

Baby Suggs shares “a lesson she had learned from her sixty years enslaved and her ten years free: that there was no bad luck in the world but white people. ‘They don’t know when to quit.’ “

“Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. Don’t study war no more. Lay all that mess down. Sword and shield.”

Baby Suggs helped Sethe settle out of survival mode, out of reliving her trauma

Beloved gets angry with Denver and Denver is so desperate for her company and love