Naomi Jackson Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 14 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Naomi Jackson.
Famous Quotes By Naomi Jackson
What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.] — Naomi Jackson
Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed. — Naomi Jackson
[T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself. — Naomi Jackson
Phaedra's body pulled at the light, testing the softer side of midnight. Hyacinth usually slipped out of bed in the middle of the night, careful to fit her rustle inside Phaedra's dreams. — Naomi Jackson
Don't tempt the devil darling. He'll give you the worse bits you asked for, plus what you couldn't even imagine. — Naomi Jackson
Hyacinth said that it was a gift to greet a new day, and that you needed to meet it in a way that showed how grateful you were to have your life spared. Phaedra wasn't sure what Hyacinth meant, exactly, but she did like the routines and rituals they had, the way they made a kind of container so her mind could wander to the things she thought and felt and dreamed about. — Naomi Jackson
One of the things that confirmed Hyacinth's suspicion that America was an evil, lonely place was that people were islands unto themselves. And so when Avril drifted away, there was no friend or neighbor or pastor or coworker to reach out to and ask after her child. — Naomi Jackson
Learn to see past the face people show you. — Naomi Jackson
One day you will see that what must be born will be born. Everything else will find another way. — Naomi Jackson
[I]t wasn't so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in their aftermath that made all the difference in how their lives turned out. — Naomi Jackson
When they were done, Dionne took her panties in one hand and her new Bible in the other and let the breeze when it came touch her where Trevor had before. She felt wiser somehow, an looking at the church lit up above, thought that maybe this kin of pleasure could be her religion. — Naomi Jackson
Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins. — Naomi Jackson
Who don't listen, feels. — Naomi Jackson
She wore her body like a mistake she hoped to one day be forgiven for. — Naomi Jackson