The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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 had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Love 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.
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