She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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