Margarita

“Just g’wan back home and set down on yo’ royal diasticutis and say nothin’.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“[A]dventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result -- and have been since at least the time of Odysseus -- of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventure happens in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home.”
― Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

“She ain’t a fact and neither do she make a good story when you tell about her.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“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