“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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“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
“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
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
― Story People
― Story People
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