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You your best thing, Sethe. You are.

I tell, therefore you are.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing….I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

She was always reading, and she read very good books.

It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like thesternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Man is not made for defeat.