Beloved (1998)
Kimberly Elise: Denver
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Quotes
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Denver : Why you call yourself Beloved?
Beloved : In the dark, my name Beloved.
Denver : What's it like where you was before? Can you tell me?
Beloved : Dark. I was small in that place.
[curls up]
Beloved : Like this here.
Denver : Were you cold?
Beloved : Hot! Nothing to breathe down there. No room to move.
Denver : You see anybody?
Beloved : It's a lot of people down there. Some is dead.
Denver : You see Jesus? Baby Suggs?
Beloved : I don't know... I don't know the names.
Denver : Well, what you come back here for?
Beloved : To see her face.
Beloved : Mama's? Sethe's?
Beloved : [grabbing Denver's hand] Sethe's.
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Denver : We have a ghost here, you know?
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Sethe : Grandma Baby used to say your daddy was too good for this world. Remember? He was a good man. It scared her. She always used to fret he wasn't gonna make it through nothin'. He made it through a lot. But maybe Grandma Baby was right. Denver, your daddy ain't gonna never show up here. You understand?
Denver : But...
Sethe : [Shakes head] The day ain't gonna never come when Halle knocks on that door. Never.