She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. - Zora Neale Hurston

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

"Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now." "Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done. They know mo' 'bout yuh than you do yo' self. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened." "If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."