People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you strong. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough
Tayari JonesEverything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.
Tayari Jones...living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay at, everything is so black that y'all don't know what it feels like to be black.
Tayari JonesPeople say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you.
Tayari JonesTag: life-lessons
Silver” is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar. It wasn’t just how they looked, it was how they were. The name came from a song my mother sang sometimes when she was getting dressed to go out somewhere special. She sang along with Aretha Franklin at the end: “Sail on, silver girl… Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.
Tayari JonesThe bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.
Tayari JonesLove is a maze. Once you get in it, you're pretty much trapped. Maybe you manage to claw your way out, but then what have you accomplished?
Tayari JonesIt's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
Tayari JonesTag: anger
The key to life," he told me once, "is to avoid the highs and the lows. It's the peaks and valleys that mess you up.
Tayari JonesThe truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.
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