Hillary Jordan Quotes

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I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you look back and see another, earlier beginning, and an earlier one before that. Even if you start with "Chapter One: I Am Born, " you still have the problem of antecedents, of cause and effect.

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There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

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Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

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That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

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What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

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This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

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The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

Hillary Jordan

Hillary Jordan

Hillary Jordan

Bio: Hillary Jordan is an American novelist. She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

Known for:

Mudbound
When She Woke
Aftermirth
Mississippi
Ecarlate

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