Sena Jeter Naslund Quotes
Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
I'm sorry to burden you, ' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories, ' he said, 'but tell them?
