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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…
• And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.…
• Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and…
• I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is…
• If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
• I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug…
• Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
• It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
• My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a…
• This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on.…
• I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen…
• 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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