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Top 25 Tara Conklin Quotes (2025 Update)

Tara Conklin Quote: “If you live long enough and well enough to know love, its various permutations and shades, you will falter. You will break someone’s heart. Fairy tales don’t tell you that. Poetry doesn’t either.”

1. “If you live long enough and well enough to know love, its various permutations and shades, you will falter. You will break someone’s heart. Fairy tales don’t tell you that. Poetry doesn’t either.”

— Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin Quote: “If there is one lesson I wish to bestow upon you, one shred of wisdom I have gained from my living, dying days, it is this: let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers.”

2. “If there is one lesson I wish to bestow upon you, one shred of wisdom I have gained from my living, dying days, it is this: let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers.”

— Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin Quote: “The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves.”

3. “The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn’t his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn’t this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?”

4. “Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn’t his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn’t this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results.”

5. “Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh.”

6. “Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “It took a madman to believe that individual involvement might change a system. It required a miracle, it required magic. Or maybe not. Maybe all it required was the alchemy of individuals who believe first that they can change themselves.”

7. “It took a madman to believe that individual involvement might change a system. It required a miracle, it required magic. Or maybe not. Maybe all it required was the alchemy of individuals who believe first that they can change themselves.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “The love of your life is always the one you have betrayed the most. The love that defines you is the one upon whom you once turned your back.”

8. “The love of your life is always the one you have betrayed the most. The love that defines you is the one upon whom you once turned your back.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “When you are older, you will, I hope, learn something of the world and understand that each man carries with him imperfection and regret, and day by day he strives to make right the wrongs he has committed, to repair what he has broken. This is what I have struggled to do, in ways human and flawed.”

9. “When you are older, you will, I hope, learn something of the world and understand that each man carries with him imperfection and regret, and day by day he strives to make right the wrongs he has committed, to repair what he has broken. This is what I have struggled to do, in ways human and flawed.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Without Joe our atoms did not know where to rest, how to behave. We were free radicals, spinning in our own small orbits, dangerous, poisonous, causing invisible but elemental damage to anything we touched.”

10. “Without Joe our atoms did not know where to rest, how to behave. We were free radicals, spinning in our own small orbits, dangerous, poisonous, causing invisible but elemental damage to anything we touched.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Two hundred and fifty years of nameless, faceless, forgotten individuals. Yes, they were America’s founding fathers and mothers as much as the bewigged white men who laid the whips upon their backs. Why didn’t Lina know their names? Why hadn’t she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had they wished for and worked for and loved?”

11. “Two hundred and fifty years of nameless, faceless, forgotten individuals. Yes, they were America’s founding fathers and mothers as much as the bewigged white men who laid the whips upon their backs. Why didn’t Lina know their names? Why hadn’t she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had they wished for and worked for and loved?”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Caroline. Listen to me. You have to decide what you love. Joe wasn’t the only one. You have to decide now and hold on. Start small. Begin with the small things and work up from here.”

12. “Caroline. Listen to me. You have to decide what you love. Joe wasn’t the only one. You have to decide now and hold on. Start small. Begin with the small things and work up from here.”

— Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin Quote: “This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it.”

13. “This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “The things you can control and the things you cannot.”

14. “The things you can control and the things you cannot.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “We believe in love because we want to believe in it. Because really, what else is there? Amid all our glorious follies and urges and weaknesses and stumbles, the magic, the hope, the gorgeous idea of it. Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we reach for?”

15. “We believe in love because we want to believe in it. Because really, what else is there? Amid all our glorious follies and urges and weaknesses and stumbles, the magic, the hope, the gorgeous idea of it. Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we reach for?”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “In poetry’s stripped-down urgency, in its openness, the space between lines, the repetition and essentialism – poets can speak in ways that transcend culture and gender and time.”

16. “In poetry’s stripped-down urgency, in its openness, the space between lines, the repetition and essentialism – poets can speak in ways that transcend culture and gender and time.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Back then, poets seemed quaint, possibly irrelevant, but there is something about crisis that returns us to the fundamentals to make sense of an uncertain future and remind us of what we need to know. It’s been that way since humans began telling stories. We sang our poems, we chanted them.”

17. “Back then, poets seemed quaint, possibly irrelevant, but there is something about crisis that returns us to the fundamentals to make sense of an uncertain future and remind us of what we need to know. It’s been that way since humans began telling stories. We sang our poems, we chanted them.”

— Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin Quote: “Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we reach for?”

18. “Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we reach for?”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “On some questions the need for persuasion meant you had already lost.”

19. “On some questions the need for persuasion meant you had already lost.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Our mother taught us how to protect ourselves from hurt but not how to determine what might be worth the risk.”

20. “Our mother taught us how to protect ourselves from hurt but not how to determine what might be worth the risk.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Dad?′ All at once I remembered that long-gone afternoon from the Pause when Joe took me to the yellow house and we stood in our parents’ old bedroom and waited for our father. I had never told anyone about that day, and I did not tell Caroline now. The memory felt like a small, terrible bomb I was holding in my hands.”

21. “Dad?′ All at once I remembered that long-gone afternoon from the Pause when Joe took me to the yellow house and we stood in our parents’ old bedroom and waited for our father. I had never told anyone about that day, and I did not tell Caroline now. The memory felt like a small, terrible bomb I was holding in my hands.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Some people will choose, again and again, to destroy what it is they value most.”

22. “Some people will choose, again and again, to destroy what it is they value most.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “Back then he had seemed like all she was good for, all she deserved. Donny inhabited a dark place that was familiar to her, and she knew how familiarity could sometimes feel like comfort.”

23. “Back then he had seemed like all she was good for, all she deserved. Donny inhabited a dark place that was familiar to her, and she knew how familiarity could sometimes feel like comfort.”

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Tara Conklin Quote: “It’s possible to exist under any number of illusions, to believe so thoroughly in the presence of things you cannot see – safety, God, love – that you impose upon them physical shapes. A bed, a cross, a husband. But ideas willed into being are still ideas and just as fragile.”

24. “It’s possible to exist under any number of illusions, to believe so thoroughly in the presence of things you cannot see – safety, God, love – that you impose upon them physical shapes. A bed, a cross, a husband. But ideas willed into being are still ideas and just as fragile.”

— Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin Quote: “It was irrational, illogical, obsessive, unhealthy, and absolutely necessary.”

25. “It was irrational, illogical, obsessive, unhealthy, and absolutely necessary.”

— Tara Conklin

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