The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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