Margarita

“Aw, git reconciled!.. You can’t git her wid no fish sandwich.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“If you travel internationally, you will feel shocked by contemptuous talk of America. To hear your fellow citizens characterized as barbarians who know nothing of love, food, health, and religion, but everything of lawsuits, fast food, and guns, is to experience a national fidelity of which you may not have thought yourself capable. And yet, you’re at a loss for a defense.”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

“It’s uh known fact...you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon