Quotes About Change

A husband I may be, but the change is my mistress and I can never stray. -Leo Bailey Demons Bride

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. -Zora Neale Hurston

Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.

Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talkin to he rin rhymes.

It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what it was. But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun.

Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she had remembered. Perhaps she'd better go look. She went over to the dresser and looked hard at her skin and features. The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there.

The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.

Something fell off the shelf inside her

But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane.

Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she had remembered. Perhaps she'd better look. She went over to the dresser and looked hard at her skin and features. The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place.

Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. 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.

Joe was not there waiting for her, the change

Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.

The sunlight where I had lost them was still of Midas gold, but that which touched me where I stood had somehow turned to gilt.

Well, if yo' mind is already made up, 'tain't nothin' nobody kin do. But you'se takin' uh awful chance." "No mo' than Ah took befo' and no mo' than anybody else takes when dey gits married. It always changes folks, and sometimes it brings out dirt and meanness dat even de person didn't know they had in 'em theyselves.

As soon as Tea Cake went out pushing wind in front of him, he saw that the wind and water had given life to lots of things that folks think of as dead and given death to so much that had been living things. Water everywhere. Stray fish swimming in the yard. Three