Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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