'Denver took her mother's milk right along with the blood of her sister'

'You got two feet Sethe, not four'

But you was there and even if you too young to memory it, I can tell it to you'

'She cut off my head every night'

'My sister came to help me wait for my daddy'

'I am Beloved and she is mine'

'Loving small and in secret'

'Sethe was trying to make up for the handsaw; Beloved was making her pay for it'

'She considered love a serious disability'

'He is coming into her yard and he is coming for her best thing'

'Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all'

'Paul D had not trembled since 1856 and then for eighty-three days in a row'

'Grown men whipped like children; children whipped like adults'

'It is hard to make yourself die forever'

'Smokey, stubborn fire. They shoot him to shut him up. Have to.'

'If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up'

'She and Baby Suggs had agreed without saying so that it was unspeakable'

'A circle and a cross burned right in the skin'

'A man could risk his own life, but not his brother's'

'Unspeakable thoughts, unspoken'

'Ella didn't like the idea of past errors taking possesion of the present'

'Remembering seemed unwise'

'Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow'

'Nothing in the world more dangerous than a white school teacher'

'Anything dead coming back to life hurts'

'His tobacco tin, blown open, spilled contents that floated freely and made him their play and prey'

'A doomsday truce designed by the devil'

'Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another'

'You are your best thing'

'So you protected yourself and loved small'

'There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks'

'The best thing she was, was her children'

'People who die don't stay in the ground'

'Beloved, she my daughter, she mine'

'124 was spiteful'

'There is a loneliness that can be rocked'