They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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