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 HURSTONSome people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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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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