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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 driving the precious air from your body.

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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 all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

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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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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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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.

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones

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Born: November 30, 1970 (age 55)

Bio: Tayari Jones is an American author and winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. She was educated at Spelman College, the University of Iowa and Arizona State University.

Known for:

Silver Sparrow (2011)
Leaving Atlanta (2002)
The untelling (2005)
An American Marriage: A Novel (2018)

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