QUOTES ABOUT JANIE WANTING LOVE

“She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She had an inside and an outside now, and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She was beginning to feel the need for a place to go.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She knew she would grow up to be a woman.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Every tear she drops scalds and leaves a scar.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She knew that Phoebe would follow her helplessly in her wake, like a puppy.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“She must be a glorious peach of a woman.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God