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Haley Newlin
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“…territory infected by the Klan. Desperately thirsty for black blood, without which it could not live, the dragon swam the Ohio at will.”
The Ohio River was supposed to be the dividing line between the slave-holding South and the free North. This made me think of American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams
— Nov 08, 2026 01:47PM
The Ohio River was supposed to be the dividing line between the slave-holding South and the free North. This made me think of American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams
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Haley Newlin
is on page 143 of 325
“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
— 2 hours, 39 min ago
“The original hunger” - Denver’s hunger for companionship and the need to love someone
Haley Newlin
is on page 132 of 325
“Free North. Magical North. Welcoming, benevolent North.”
Paul D., like so many others, wanted to believe he’d be safe up North
— 2 hours, 47 min ago
Paul D., like so many others, wanted to believe he’d be safe up North
Haley Newlin
is on page 124 of 325
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.’ “
— 2 hours, 50 min ago
Haley Newlin
is on page 102 of 325
“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
— 2 hours, 58 min ago
Baby Suggs helped Sethe settle out of survival mode, out of reliving her trauma
Haley Newlin
is on page 89 of 325
Beloved gets angry with Denver and Denver is so desperate for her company and love
— 3 hours, 4 min ago
Haley Newlin
is on page 84 of 325
Sweet Home men, women, and children made to wear a bit in their mouth. Sethe says people who had the bit “always looked wild after that” — recalls “the wild man” she spoke of in the beginning of the book
— 5 hours, 22 min ago
Haley Newlin
is on page 54 of 325
“Risky…very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous”
Paul D.
— Nov 08, 2026 01:30PM
Paul D.
Haley Newlin
is on page 50 of 325
Sethe says Denver is a “charmed child” and that nothing bad can happen to her
“Everybody I knew dead or gone or dead and gone. Not her. Not my Denver.”
— Nov 08, 2026 01:28PM
“Everybody I knew dead or gone or dead and gone. Not her. Not my Denver.”
Haley Newlin
is on page 48 of 325
Baby Suggs was so starved for color and now Sethe feels it too.
“how barren 124 really was”
— Nov 08, 2026 01:26PM
“how barren 124 really was”
Haley Newlin
is on page 13 of 325
“The wild man” - the men Sethe describes at Sweet Home are so severely dehumanized and traumatized by slavery. “The wild man” is what slavery turns a man in to
— Nov 08, 2026 01:19PM