Every day Quote by Sena Jeter Naslund

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

— Sena Jeter Naslund

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…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“ Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.”

— 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…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears?” Uncle asked me. “It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration…

— Sena Jeter Naslund