33 Quotes by Sena Jeter Naslund

Time is something of an enemy” she opined, “for us mortals. And yet I love it” – she fluttered her fingers in the air – “I love this moment, and it’s a child of time.

He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small.

It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory.

Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.

Do you think yourself a string too short to save? Do you think that you are lank and straight, a linear bit with no connection fore or aft? Fear not your insignificance. Nature has a drawer for you. Yes, nature garners all the string too short to save, and mice visit that drawer. Here’s nesting material! Yes, you will be interwoven, be it now or later.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.