I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that "a taste of honey is worse than none at all.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“I knew by then that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
