Memorable Quotes

A.”Which one are you doing?” And one of the boys said, “Sethe”- “No, no. That’s not the way. I told you to put her human characteristics on the left; her animal ones on the right. And don’t forget to line them up.” Page193	B.” Mr. Garner why you call me Jenny?” “Cause that what’s on your sales ticket, gal. Ain’t that your name? what you call yourself?” “Nothing I call myself nothing.” Mr. Garner went red with laughter. “When I took you out of Carolina, Whitlow called you Jenny and Jenny Whitlow is what his bill said. Didn’t he call you Jenny?” “No sir, if he did I didn’t hear it.” “What did you answer to?” “Anything, but Suggs is what my husband name.” “You got married Jenny? I didn’t know it.” “Manner of speaking.” “You know where he is, this husband?” “No, sir.” “Is that Halle’s daddy?” “No sir” “why you call him Suggs, then? His bill of sale says Whitlow too, just like yours.” “Suggs is my name, sir. From my husband. He didn’t call me Jenny.” “what he call you?” “Baby”	C. "I was big, Paul D, and deep and wide and when I stretched out my arms all my children could get in between. I was that wide. Look like I loved em more after I got here. Or maybe I     couldn't love em proper in Kentucky because they wasn't mine to love. But when I got here, when I jumped down off that wagon-there wasn't nobody in the world I couldn't love if I wanted to. You know what I mean?"Page 162
D.” From Denver’s two thrilled eyes it grew to a feast for ninety people. 124 shook with their voices far into the night. Ninety people who at e so well, and laughed so much, it made them angry” page 136	E. “The people of the broken necks, of fire-cooked blood and black girls who had lost their ribbons. What a roaring” Page 181	F.” Beloved is my sister. I swallowed her blood right along with my mother’s milk.” Page 205