“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't 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.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“You can lose a lot when you travel too much.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing battle, they will finalize it rather than have it wrenched from them. Insanity wouldn't permit that type of clarity.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“..but it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
“Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor
Born place: in New York, The United States
Born date January 25, 1950
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“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, quote from Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
“Spring passes
and the birds cry out—tears
in the eyes of fishes”
― Matsuo Bashō, quote from Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
“Embracing and being thankful for the family and friends I do have instead of yearning for the family I cannot know or have has helped erase the hollowness I felt when I first found out. When I consider my good health, sense of humor, adventurous side, creative gifts and even my quirky phobias, I am grateful that the two people responsible for creating me existed.” (Maddie Saunders, the heroine)”
― Selena Robins, quote from What a Girl Wants
“لا يهم اختلاف المكان الذي انطلقنا منه . . .إنما المهم حقا،هو الهدف الذي نسعى إليه”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from Hello? Is Anybody There?
“I myself stand on one side and the rest of the world on the other. There is an abyss between, that no power can cross, a strange barrier more insuperable than a mountain of fire. Husband and wife know nothing of one another. However ardent their passion, however intimate their union, they are never one; they are scarcely more to one another than strangers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Mrs Craddock
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