

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
― Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
― Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― 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.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God

“It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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