Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale HurstonSözler ve Alıntılar
You have faith? or it’s just a fanaticism?
Beyond her faith was a fanaticisim to defend the altars of her god.
“Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.”
“Ah knowed you wasn’t gointuh lissen tuh me. You changes everthing but nothin’ don’t change you — not even death.”
What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him?
“It takes money tuh freed pretty women. Dey gits uh lavish uh talk.”
“Not lak mine. Dey loves to hear me talk because dey can’t understand it. Mah co-talkin’ is too deep. Too much co to it.”
She found that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them. She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
It was all according to the way you see things. Some people could look at a mudpuddle and see an ocean with ships. But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her.