166 Quotes by Tayari Jones

You say you want my advice. Here’s what I have. Tell the truth. Don’t try to cushion the blow. If you’re bad enough to do it, you’re bad enough to tell it.

It takes being together to another level when you go to bed for a purpose larger than your own feelings.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots.

However much it hurts you, remember that I am the one it happened to. I am the one who was pregnant. I’m the one who isn’t pregnant anymore. Whatever you feel, think about what I must feel. Just like you can say I don’t know what it is like to be in prison, you don’t know what it’s like to go to a clinic and sign your name in a book.

Gloria once told me that your best quality is also your worst.

In so many ways, you can’t choose what you give to your daughter, you just give her what you have.

The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads. The writing on the walls spells out trick questions, and as a man, you must know that you cannot reason your way out.

With my eyes on my wife, I would tell the waitress that I liked my coffee like I liked my women, “black and sweet.” This always got me a smile. Then Celestial would say, “I like my mimosa like I like my men: transparent.

I’ve likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back,” she said. “But I rolled my way into a life I love.