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1. The Past That Will Not Stay Past
1.18 - A love too thick

” The prickly, mean-eyed Sweet Home girl he knew as Halle’s girl was obedient (like Halle), shy (like Halle), and with-crazy (like Halle). He was wrong. This here Sethe was new.” (p. 193)

”I stopped him,” she said, staring at the place where the fence used to be. “I took and put my babies where they‘d be safe.” (p. 193)

And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. (p. 192)

1.17 - The mouth that wasn’t hers

1.16 - Read it a second time without a memory of the previous time, except for the first few alinea’s, which seem tedious and unappealing. The horror of what comes after is brutal and impressive and it makes you want to put it away. I can’t wrap my head around it how completely I have blocked that out. Only to find out that I wrote down the chapter here, and after that had to leave the book alone for 4 months…

1.16 - “What she want to go and do that for?”

When the four horsemen came, and Sethe, together with her two boys and the child to her chest, was already soaked and a fourth she held by the heels. Desperate act, quite impossible to read.

As if he were sunk in the pleasure of a deep sweet sleep, he sighed the sigh that flung the sheriff into action.

”Suggs is my name, sir. From my husband. He didn’t call me Jenny.”
“What he call you?”
“Baby.”

1.14 - Beloved pulls a back tooth