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“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”

Zora Neale Hurston

Source: Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

“I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“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 Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20, p. 193.
Context: Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

“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.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“Love, I find, is like singing.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”

Zora Neale Hurston

“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 Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God