She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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