"mah love didn’t work lak they love, if dey ever had any. 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 shapte from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore"

- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston