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Janie was being taken care of by Nanny
"Ah ast de Lawd when you was uh infant in mah arms to let me stay here till you got grown…. Mah daily prayer now is to let dese golden moments rolls on a few days longer til Ah see you safe in life.” -
Nanny wanted her married off to Logan for her own saftey
“Ah can’t die easy thinkin’ maybe de menfolks white or black is makin’ a spit cup outa you. Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate.” -
When Janie first met Tea Cake "He drifted off to sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place."
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Janie felt like she could finally be free wit Tea Cake
"Janie woke next morning by feeling Tea Cake almost kissing her breath away. Holding her and caressing her as if he feared she might escape his grasp and fly away. Then he must dress hurriedly and get to his job on time. He wouldn’t let her get him any breakfast at all. He wanted her to get her rest." -
When Janie has to shoot Tea Cake
"Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all. She wished she had slipped off that cow-tail and drowned then and there and been done. But to kill her through Tea Cake was too much to bear."