Quotes & Sayings About Sethe In Beloved

I'd always hated running. Born-again joggers described how they got addicted to the rapture of running, how they achieved a nirvana known as a runner's high. Right. I'd always firmly believed that--much like the high of auto-asphyxiation--the bliss came more from a lack of oxygen to the brain than any sort of endorphin rush. — Harlan Coben

Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe. — Toni Morrison

The whole world is one neighborhood. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile. — Toni Morrison

You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next valley, it'd all ... fit. Be right."
"All my life, more of less"
"All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned ... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am. — Joe Abercrombie

Be neither too remote nor too familiar. — Prince Charles

Good morning to you too," he says in a lazy drawl. I have my hand on the bathroom door when he says, "In case you were wondering, the answer is yes."
I pause, afraid to look back. "Yes?" Yes, it was him holding me through the night? Yes, he knows I liked it?
"Yes, you can come with me," he says as though he already regrets it. "I'll take you to the aerie. — Susan Ee

When you get to be a certain size as a man, all the shirts end up having giant dogs on them or things like that! — Ron Funches

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help. — Thomas Keating

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. — Charles Frohman