Top 20 Sena Jeter Naslund Quotes (2024 Update)

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”

3. “If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?”

4. “Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?”

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Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?”

6. “Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?”

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Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.”

8. “Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.”

9. “Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”

11. “If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”

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Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small.”

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

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Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.”

14. “But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.”

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

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.”

16. “She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.”

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

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.”

19. “She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.”

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Sena Jeter Naslund Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

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