So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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