33 Quotes by Sena Jeter Naslund

Los buenos actos resuenan a nuestro paso, mucho tiempo después de que hayamos olvidado haberlos realizado.

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

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.

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?

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

S IS THE SOUND of the sea. Her surge and suck, her spray and surf. Sometimes she seethes. She knows the sound of smooth. With her s, the sea marries the shore, and then there is scamper and slush in the sand. With curling s’s the sea rises to stroke the side of her superior, the sky, who loves and meets her in the s of spray, spawned in liquid and air.

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself.