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Tayari Jones has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on.…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.…
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It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's…
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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and…
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Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are
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...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and…
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We are part and parcel of a single and all-encompassing evolutionary current that is itself Spirit-in-action, the mode and manner of Spirit's…
— Ken Wilber
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I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was…
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.
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And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.
— Elizabeth Chandler
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Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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