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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now. — Tayari Jones

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. — Tayari Jones

Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. — Pablo Neruda

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. — Tayari Jones

Life is full of things you never figured on. — Tayari Jones

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury. — Tayari Jones

Marriage is complicated. — Tayari Jones

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. — Tayari Jones

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures
this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones

Our past is never past & there is no such thing as moving on... — Tayari Jones

Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face. — Peter Hedges

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. — James Taylor

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. — Tayari Jones

But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open. — Tayari Jones

The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it. — Francesca Lia Block

...and I wondered what it felt like to live inside such disloyal skin. — Tayari Jones

I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter. — Tayari Jones

He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with. — Tayari Jones

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. — Tayari Jones

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that a taste of honey is worse than none at all. — Tayari Jones

The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief. — Tayari Jones

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. — Shia Labeouf

Love 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 Jones

I do have a sister - I have two sisters. — Tayari Jones

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. — Noam Chomsky

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young. — Tayari Jones

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 Jones

Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise. — Tayari Jones

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. — Tayari Jones

But in truth, I was different now, burning and anointed. — Tayari Jones