Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it se...
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine em...
You needs uh man. Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Be...
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it nev...
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, Ah hope you fall on soft ground, because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she h...
Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. so they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements wit...
Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it...
Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain
Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of the heart.
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. Ah
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.
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
I love myself when I am laughing.