Chapter 1: "Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly" (1)
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight..." (1)
"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear" (5)
Chapter 2: "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches" (8)
"But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest" (9)
"The rose of the world was breathing out smell" (10)
"She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her" (11)
"She searched as much of the world as she could...Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made" (11).
"De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see" (14)
"us colored folks is branches without roots...But nothin' can't stop you from wishin" (16)
Chapter 3: "There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a guld of formless feeling untouched by thought" (24).
"She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up" (25).
"Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (25).
Chapter 4: "A pretty doll-baby lak you is made to sit on de front porch and rock and fan yo'self" (29).
"He spoke for change and chance" (29).
"A bee for her bloom" (32).
Chapter 5: "Us colored folks is too envious of one 'noter. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do" (39).
"And furthermo' everything is got uh have uh center and uh heart tuh it" (40).
Chapter 6: "I god, Ah can't see what uh woman uh yo' stability would want tuh be treasurin' all dat gum-grease from folks dat don't even own de house dey sleep in" (54).
"She was a wind on the ocean" (70).
"She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them" (72).
Chapter 7: "Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels" (76).
"Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish" (79).
"But Ah ain't goin' outa here and Ah ain't gointuh hush" (86).
"All dis bowin' down, all dis disobedience under yo' voice-- dat ain't whut Ah rushed off down de road tuh find out..." (87).
"The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place" (87).
Chapter 9: "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world" (88).
"It was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her" (89).
"She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around" (90).
Chapter 10: "Yuh can't beat uh woman. Dey jes won't stand fuh it" (96).
Chapter 11: "She felt like a child breaking rules" (102).
"Ah betcha you don't never go tuh de lookin' glass and enjoy yo' eyes yo'self" (104).
"You'se got de world in uh jug and make out you don't know it" (104).
Chapter 12: "Still and all, she's her own woman" (111).
"Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine: (114).
Chapter 13: "She was broken and her pride was gone" (119).
Chapter 14: "Work all day for money, fight all night for love" (131).
"She could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to" (134).
Chapter 15: "A little seed of fear was growing into a tree" (136).
"Janie never thought at all. She just acted on feelings" (137).
Chapter 16: "He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull" (141).
"Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion" (145).
Chapter 17: "Being able to whip her reassured him in possession. No brutal beating at all" (147).
Chapter 18: "...their route was definite" (155).
"Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands" (158).
"...the wind and water had given life to lots of things that folks think of as dead and given death to so much that been living things" (160).
Chapter 19: "Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing" (170).
"She could either run or try to take it away before it was too late" (182).
"They were all against her, she could see" (186).
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding" (189).
Chapter 20: "Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes it shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore" (191).
"You got tuh go there tuh know there" (192).
"They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves" (192).
"The place tasted fresh again...The wind through the open windows had broomed out all the fetid feeling of absence and nothingness" (192).
"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net" (193).
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