1. “From barren brown stems to snowy virginity of bloom.” Chapter 2, page 10
2. “She was stretched out on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.” Chapter 2, page 11
3. “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver o the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in ever blossom, and frothing with delight.” Chapter 2, page 11
4. “The cooling palma christi leaves that Janie had bound about her grandma’s head with a white rag had wilted down and become part and parcel of the woman.” Chapter 2, page12
5. “She saw the huge tear that welled up from Janie’s heart and stood in each eye. She saw terrible agony and the lips tightened down hold back the cry and desisted.” Chapter 2, page 12
6. “It was a lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been.” Chapter 3, pages 21-22
7. “The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind.” Chapter 3, page 22
8. “But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things.” Chapter 3, page 25
9. “She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take from with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.” Chapter 3, page 25
10. “It was a citified, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn’t belong in these parts. His coat was over his arm, but he didn’t need it to represent his clothes. The shirt with the silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. He whistled, mopped his face and walked like he knew where he was going. He was a seal-brown color but he acted like Mr. Washburn or somebody like that to Janie.” Chapter 4, page 27
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