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“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“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
“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
“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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