I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Gloria Naylor

Life is accepting what is and working from that.
Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
Gloria Naylor

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Gloria Naylor

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.
Gloria Naylor