It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale HurstonRead
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the essence of a marriage can fade when intimacy and connection are compromised.
Zora Neale Hurston's quote reflects a poignant observation about the state of marriages, indicating that the deep connection that couples share often diminishes over time, moving from a personal and intimate space to a more superficial one. It highlights the importance of maintaining emotional and physical closeness in relationships to prevent the essence or 'spirit' of the marriage from fading away.
In practice
During a wedding toast, a speaker might refer to this quote to emphasize the importance of nurturing intimacy in marriage.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloomβ¦It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.
Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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