Gloria Naylor Quotes (13 Quotes)

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Time's 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.

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

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

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

It ain't really what you'd call change. It's all happened before and it'll happen again with a different set of facts.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

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 there's 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.

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

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

The last time you're doing something -- knowing you're doing it for the last -- makes it even more alive than the first.