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Shit <\3

“Your love is too thick.”

“When the four horsemen came-schoolteacher, one nephew, one slave catcher and a sheriff-the house on Bluestone Road was so quiet they thought they were too late.”

Uh oh

“It's better here, but I'm not. The Garners, it seemed to her, ran a special kind of slavery, treating them like paid labor, listening to what they said, teaching what they wanted known.”

“It's better here, but I'm not. The Garners, it seemed to her, ran a special kind of slavery, treating them like paid labor, listening to what they said, teaching what they wanted known.”

Softly, suddenly, it began to snow, like a present come down from the sky. Sethe opened her eyes to it and said, "Mercy." And it seemed to Paul D that it was—a little mercy-something given to them on purpose to mark what they were feeling so they would remember it later on when they needed to.

Ew ew ew

So… that whole chapter was dark, unsettling, nonsense?

“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” <\3