Linden Hills Quotes

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“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, Linden Hills

“You can lose a lot when you travel too much.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Contempt mates well with pity.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing battle, they will finalize it rather than have it wrenched from them. Insanity wouldn't permit that type of clarity.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“..but it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“They looked only at the products and thought they saw God—they should have looked at the process.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Well, I guess she meant giving up that part of you that let's you know who you are. She would often say, 'Child, there's gonna come a time when you'll look at the world and not know what the blazes is going on. Somebody' ll be calling you their father, their husband, their boss--whatever. And it can get confusing, trying to sort all that out, and you can lose yourself in other people's minds. You can forget what you really want and believe. So you keep that mirror and when it's crazy outside, you look inside and you'll always know exactly where you are and what you are. And you call that peace.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“They didn’t understand the importance of a family, of life. All of those sacrifices to build them houses and they refused to build a history.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Lie to everyone in this man’s world if need be, but never lie to yourself, because that’s the quickest road to destruction.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“In Linden Hills they could forget that the world said you spelled black with a capital nothing. Well, they were something and there was everything around them to show it. The world hadn't given them anything but the chance to fail -- and they hadn't failed, because they were in Linden Hills. They had a thousand years and a day to sit right there and forget what it meant to be black, because it meant working yourself to death just to stand still.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“In short, his entire life became a race against the natural—and he was winning.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills