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Those twenty-eight happy days were followed by eighteen years of disapproval and a solitary life. Then a few months of the sun-splashed life that the shadows holding hands on the road promised her… Was that the pattern? she wondered. Every eighteen or twenty years her unlivable life would be interrupted by a short-lived glory?
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“No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.”
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“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.”
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Alanna Thornton
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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.
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