43 Quotes by Nella Larsen

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of “passing,” this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity. This she saw clearly now, and with cold anger at all the past futile effort. What a waste!

It was the most brilliant exhibition of conversational weightlifting that Irene had ever seen.

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She laughed and the ringing bells in her laugh had a hard metallic sound.

New York’s the lonesomest place in the world if you don’t know anybody.

Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak, she became, the easier it was. Her religion was to her a kind of protective coloring, shielding her from the cruel light of an unbearable reality.