Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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 was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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