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Denver is delivered by Amy in the Ohio River
"And the strong hands went to work a fourth time, none too soon, for river water, seeping through any hole it chose, was spreading over Sethe's hips." (99)
"She loved it [the story] because it was all about herself." (91) -
Nelson Lords asks Denver about her mother
"Murder, Nelson Lord had said. 'Didn't your mother get locked away for murder? Wasn't you in there with her when she did?" (123)
"She was too scared to ask her brothers nor anyone else Nelson Lord's question because certain odd and terrifying feelings about her mother were collecting around the thing that leapt up inside her... for two years she walked in a silence too solid for penetration..." (121) -
Denver can hear again
"The return of Denver's hearing, cut off by an answer she could not bear to hear, cut on by the sound of her dead sister trying to climb the stairs, signaled another shift in the fortunes of the people of 124." (122)
"I asked her if it was true, but couldn't hear what she said and there was no point going back to Lady Jones if I couldn't hear what anybody said." (245) -
Paul D comes to 124 and kicks the ghost out
"Paul D did not stop whipping the table around until everything was rock quiet." (22)
"Paul D frowned but said nothing. If there had been an open latch between them, it would have closed." (67) -
Beloved appears at 124
"A fully dressed woman walked out of the water." (60)
"Denver, however, was shaking. She looked at this sleeping beauty and wanted more." (63) -
Denver loses Beloved in the shed
"No footfall announces her, but there she is, standing where before there was nobody when Denver looked. And smiling." (145)
"She feels like and ice cake torn away from the solid surface of the stream, floating on darkness, thick and crashing against the edges of things around it. Breakable, meltable, and cold." (144-145) -
Denver goes to Lady Jones for help
"She was older, of course, and dressed like a chippy, but the girl was immediately recognizable to Lady Jones...'Why, Denver,' she said. 'Look at you.'"(290)
"'Oh, baby," said Mrs. Jones. 'Oh, baby.' Denver looked up at her. She did not know i then, but it was the word "baby" said softly and with such kindness, that inaugurated her life in the world as a woman." (292) -
Denver asks the Bodwin's for a job
"The Bodwins were most likely to help since they had done it twice. Once for Baby Suggs and once for her mother. Why not the third generation as well?" (297)
"Nobody was going to help her unless she told it--told all of it. It was clear that Janey wouldn't and wouldn't let her see the Bodwins otherwise." (298)