“She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom – a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung above him. He was a glance from God.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― 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.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”
― Little Children
― Little Children
“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.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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