Their Eyes Were Watching God Final Project

Savor childhood/innocence
1. "She sits high, but she looks low. Dat's what Ah say 'bout dese ole women runnin' after young boys" (3).
2. "She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her" (11).
3. "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..." (24).
4. "You married? You ain't hardly old enough to be weaned. Ah betcha you still craves sugar-tits, doncher?" (28).
5. "A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things and lonely" (46).
6. "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" (72).
7. "Because he began to talk about her age all the time, as if he didn't want her to stay young while he grew old" (77).
8. "Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass" (87).
9. "She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around" (90). She was just basking in freedom for the most part without the need for thought" (93).
10. "Then he looked back at her with an irresistible grin on his face. Janie burst out laughing in spite of herself" (97).
11. "It was so crazy digging worms by lamp light and setting out for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaking rules. That's what made Janie like it" (102).
12. "Somebody done tole 'em what to set down for. Nobody ain't told poor me, so sittin' still worries me. Ah wants tuh utilize mahself all over" (112). Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah mean tuh live mine" (114).
13. "He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place" (128).
14. "Only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to" (134).
15. "Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous" (136).
16. "Janie's coffee-and-cream complexion and her luxurious hair made Mrs. Turner forgive her for wearing overalls like the other women who worked in the fields" (140).
17. "Still and all, jealousies arose now and then on both sides" (147).
18. "It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night" (158).
19. "You only sound ole when you tell folks when you wuz born, but wid de eye you'se young enough tuh suit most any man" (180). "God made it so you spent yo' ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo' young girl days to spend wid me" (180-181).
20. "Two things everybody's got tuh du fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves" (192).