166 Quotes by Tayari Jones

She explained that convenience, habit, comfort, obligation – these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

Love is the enemy of sound judgment, and occasionally this is in service of the good.

Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

But more women should be selfish,” she said. “Or else the world will trample you.

Maybe that’s what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future. When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person.

Something shadowy and female happened between them, as mysterious and primal as witches’ brew.

Looking back on it, it’s like watching a horror flick and wondering why the characters are so determined to ignore the danger signs. When a spectral voice says, GET OUT, you should do it. But in real life, you don’t know that you’re in a scary movie. You think your wife is being overly emotional. You quietly hope it’s because she’s pregnant, because a baby is what you need to lock this thing in and throw away the key.

Maybe that’s what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future.

I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can’t reuse or repair.