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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONPeople can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON