1. Pg. 11 - "Sit down to long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up." Slaves are not free to just sit down and relax. If a slave is not working then white people are going to make them suffer. All humans should be allowed to relax.
2. Pg. 54 - "For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settle on to love." This quote is stating that slaves have gone through a lot of hard times. For them to love something so much is dangerous because, chances are, it is going to be taken away. In Sethe's case, she didn't want her children to go through as much as she did, so she felt it would be better to kill them.
3. Pg. 195 - "You got two feet, Sethe, not four." Paul D. is stating that Sethe is not an animal. Animals kill there flesh and blood, humans don't. Paul D. wants Sethe to know she had other options. She didn't have to kill her kid. She was finally free and could have found a way to keep her children safe from the hardships white people would give them.
4. Pg. 200 - "Denver needed somebody normal in her life." Irony to the fact that nobody is normal. Her life would never be normal. She grew up with a mother who endured slavery. Her mother is cursed with the memories of her past and will never be set free from them.
5. Pg. 201 - "Deeper and more painful...scorching his soul like a silver dollar in a fool's pocket, was the memory of Baby Suggs..." Baby Suggs made an impact on Paul D.
6. Pg. 208 - "My marrow is tired, he thought." Stamp Paid is tired all the way down to the bone. He is just plain tired.
7. Pg. 208 - "Her authority ... all that had been mocked and rebuked by the bloodspill in her backyard." Baby Suggs had to live with the knowledge of her daughter killing her grandbaby.
8. Pg. 208 - "He believed then that shame put her in the bed." She was sick, tired, and just plain worn out. She was just ready to lay and rest.
9. Pg. 209 - "After years of losing children to the people who chewed up her life and spit it out like a fish bone;..." The white people have felt as though black people owed them their life. The white people took the blacks and used them as animals until there was nothing left to use. They abused them and tormented them.
10. Pg. 209 - "...and then to have the community step back and hold itself at a distance..." The community wanted nothing to do with 124. They were a strange family and nobody wanted to be a part of it. To help them was out of the question. People are scared of the unusual. People like their life to be normal and plain.
11. Pg. 214 - "...if her daughter could come back home from the timeless place..." This is Sethe's first acknowledgment of Beloved's death.
12. Pg. 215 - "hominy" ??? definition is coursely ground corn to make grits.
13. Pg. 215 - "Think on it then lay it down - for good." Let the past be the past. Just let it go.
14. Pg. 219 - "Not me. I'm going to stay riled till somebody gets some sense and leastway act like a Christian." Help fellow people around you.
15. Pg. 237 - "