378 Quotes About Beloved

Even nowwhen I say your nameit leaves my mouthin slow motionlike a winged prayer;A hymn beforethe altar of love.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

To a lover, the beloved is ocean and mountain, fatigue and relief, poison and amrit - indeed, all of churning itself

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

And she did. Sitting there holding a small white tooth in the palm of her smooth smooth hand. Cried the way she wanted to when turtles came out of the water, one behind the other, right after the blood-red bird disappeared back into the leaves. The way she wanted to when Sethe went to him standing in the tub under the stairs. With the tip of her tongue she touched the salt water that slid to the corner of her mouth and hoped Denver’s arm around her shoulders would keep them from falling apart.

The night you were born, I remember having a vision, a vision like this, of us with this feeling in our hearts. Like anything was possible because we were loved and free. That vision filled me with so much hope, I scratched out your name on the birth certificate and put down the only word that could describe how I felt. Ashna.

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it, let alone the fright of two creeping-off boys. Her past had been like her present—intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness, she used the little energy left her for pondering color.

If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?''Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth.