She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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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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