She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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