Sethe's Quotes

#1. A rut ... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

James Hunter

#2. Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.

Toni Morrison

#3. You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

Toni Morrison

#4. I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

Dolly Parton

#5. The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

Nicole Kidman

#6. To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.

Toni Morrison

#7. Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."
He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. "You your best thing, Sethe, You are." His holding fingers are holding hers.
"Me? Me?

Toni Morrison

#8. In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself.

George Orwell

#9. 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

#10. Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.

Toni Morrison

#11. Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'
Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Toni Morrison

#12. For peace, look not outside but inside.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

Toni Morrison

#14. Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Kenneth R. Miller

#15. Together they stood in the doorway. For Sethe it was as though the Clearing had come to her with all its heat and simmering leaves, where the voices of women searched for the right combination, the key, the code, the sound that broke the back of words.

Toni Morrison

#16. With 'Silver Linings,' I didn't feel - I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, 'Let me go with it.' You have to know what you're doing, where you're going with the scenes, and I put a lot of work into that. But when you're out there, at the same time you gotta be ready for anything.

Robert De Niro

#17. Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.

Barack Obama

#18. You got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

Toni Morrison

#19. Can he find it in his heart to love this plain, ordinary woman? Can he love her enough to write a music for her? If he cannot, what is left for him?

J.M. Coetzee

#20. You your best thing, Sethe. You are.

Toni Morrison

#21. I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

Oprah Winfrey