Abundance Quotes

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

“Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

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

“I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweetness and appeal. Resentment, the empress says, is like a snake that nests in the bosom, and it can turn and strike her who harbors it.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

“Debería tener la capacidad de ser feliz conmigo misma, de estar satisfecha con lo que soy. No como reina, sino con lo que soy.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

“Al día de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con qué actitud desempeño mi papel, eso depende únicamente de mi.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

“Rousseau pensaba que era bueno estar solo a veces y que quizá nuestras naturalezas florecían con la máxima pureza en esas ocasiones.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

“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, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

“Quizá mi vida no es más que una serie de momentos de vestirse y desvestirse de nuevo para la tarea en cuestión.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

“¿Cómo puede uno comer cuando el corazón está ocupado?”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance

“Los buenos actos resuenan a nuestro paso, mucho tiempo después de que hayamos olvidado haberlos realizado.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, Abundance