Beloved

Quote: "Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard." Sethe shook her head. "Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part. Sorry you missed her though."

I felt that this was a very meaningful passage for numerous reasons. One being that you can immediately get the tone of the book to be somewhat depressing because of the way they address death. You get the feeling that the characters have experienced so much hardship in their lives that death is almost a "relief" or the "easy way out" over living through all the pain. Although I am only in the beginning of the book, this tone leads me to believe that the book is going to have a very deep meaning associated it dealing with life's cruelties.