She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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