Quotes by Gloria Naylor

“I dont believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

“Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.”

“Lord keep her safe since you cant keep her sane.”

“Life is accepting what is and working from that.”

“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”

“It aint really what youd call change. Its all happened before and itll happen again with a different set of facts.”

“Spoiled. Thats all its about - cant live without this, cant live without that. You can live without anything you werent born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.”

“Its as if Ive arrived in a place where its all spirit and no body - an overwhelming sense of calm...I actually began to feel blessed.”

“Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.”

“Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal”

“Even though the planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless theres some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world - frightening as it is”

“His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning.”

“Times passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.”

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

But I dont believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Times passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over.

She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

They all trying to say something with music that you cant say with plain talk. There aint really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.