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1. "Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger." ~ Gloria Naylor
2. "She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four." ~ Gloria Naylor
3. "The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul." ~ Gloria Naylor
4. "I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself." ~ Gloria Naylor
5. "They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything." ~ Gloria Naylor
6. "Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals." ~ Gloria Naylor
7. "Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second." ~ Gloria Naylor
8. "The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head." ~ Gloria Naylor
9. "1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3)." ~ Gloria Naylor
10. "3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115)." ~ Gloria Naylor
11. "2)"Even though this planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world- frightening as it is- could be the end of the world, which would be quite a pity." (28)." ~ Gloria Naylor
12. "He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born." ~ Gloria Naylor
13. "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
14. "Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes." ~ Gloria Naylor
15. "You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence." ~ Gloria Naylor
16. "Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane." ~ Gloria Naylor
17. "Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song." ~ Gloria Naylor
18. "One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work." ~ Gloria Naylor
19. "I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it." ~ Gloria Naylor
20. "Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism." ~ Gloria Naylor
21. "Life is accepting what is and working from that." ~ Gloria Naylor
22. "I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with." ~ Gloria Naylor

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