Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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