“What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You… — 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… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok… — 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
