“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: 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.
“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13.
Context: Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
C. 2, p. 10.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 7