Extended Reading
  • Kyle 2022-10-25 11:20:14

    Belonging to Cain's Mind History

    Judging by the weaving of the film's text, The Favourite covers all the elements that works of this era are accustomed to: suffering, love, mystery, sex and violence.
    It is undeniable that Toni Morrison's novel conception fully shows her sublime talent with southern attributes as a narrator. She...

Beloved quotes

  • Paul D: [as Paul D enters Sethe's home, he is met with a pulsating glow of red light and backs away in fear] Good God, girl. What kind of evil you got in there?

    Sethe: It ain't evil. Just sad.

  • Denver: Why you call yourself Beloved?

    Beloved: In the dark, my name Beloved.

    Denver: What's it like where you was before? Can you tell me?

    Beloved: Dark. I was small in that place.

    [curls up]

    Beloved: Like this here.

    Denver: Were you cold?

    Beloved: Hot! Nothing to breathe down there. No room to move.

    Denver: You see anybody?

    Beloved: It's a lot of people down there. Some is dead.

    Denver: You see Jesus? Baby Suggs?

    Beloved: I don't know... I don't know the names.

    Denver: Well, what you come back here for?

    Beloved: To see her face.

    Beloved: Mama's? Sethe's?

    Beloved: [grabbing Denver's hand] Sethe's.