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Tayari Jones Quote: “All Olive wanted was to see this day. That was all she ever asked for and she’s not here to experience it. You’re home and we’re sitting here eating other women’s food. I know the Lord has a plan, but this isn’t right.”

101. “All Olive wanted was to see this day. That was all she ever asked for and she’s not here to experience it. You’re home and we’re sitting here eating other women’s food. I know the Lord has a plan, but this isn’t right.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “Maybe that’s what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future.”

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

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I indulged you since you were a little girl, so you think every day is supposed to be the weekend.”

103. “I indulged you since you were a little girl, so you think every day is supposed to be the weekend.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “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.”

104. “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.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I have always let you know how much I care, right? You never had to wonder. I’m not a man for words. Daddy showed me that you ‘do’ for a woman. Remember that time when you damn near had a nervous breakdown because it looked like the hickory-nut tree in the front yard was thinking about dying? Where I’m from, we don’t believe in spending money on pets, let alone trees. But I couldn’t bear to see you fret, so I hired a tree doctor. See, in my mind, that was a love letter.”

105. “I have always let you know how much I care, right? You never had to wonder. I’m not a man for words. Daddy showed me that you ‘do’ for a woman. Remember that time when you damn near had a nervous breakdown because it looked like the hickory-nut tree in the front yard was thinking about dying? Where I’m from, we don’t believe in spending money on pets, let alone trees. But I couldn’t bear to see you fret, so I hired a tree doctor. See, in my mind, that was a love letter.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I mourned as though I had miscarried. My body apparently was fertile soil, but my life was not.”

106. “I mourned as though I had miscarried. My body apparently was fertile soil, but my life was not.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I feel like I need and need and need and it’s wearing a hole in the fabric.”

107. “I feel like I need and need and need and it’s wearing a hole in the fabric.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “She and I have a connection. Today, the link is rusty, the current erratic, but there will always be something between us.”

108. “She and I have a connection. Today, the link is rusty, the current erratic, but there will always be something between us.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “None of this proposing via billboard or at halftime at the Rose Bowl. Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.”

109. “None of this proposing via billboard or at halftime at the Rose Bowl. Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I know who I married, too. You’re in me. When I touch you, your flesh communicates with my bones.”

110. “I know who I married, too. You’re in me. When I touch you, your flesh communicates with my bones.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “It occurs to me that maybe a man can love his son only as much as he loves the mother.”

111. “It occurs to me that maybe a man can love his son only as much as he loves the mother.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “Women’s work is never easy, never clean.”

112. “Women’s work is never easy, never clean.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “It’s funny how you think you can know a person.”

113. “It’s funny how you think you can know a person.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I didn’t want a fresh start, but maybe a little breathing room would be nice.”

114. “I didn’t want a fresh start, but maybe a little breathing room would be nice.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “The key to life,” he told me once, “is to avoid the highs and the lows. It’s the peaks and valleys that mess you up.”

115. “The key to life,” he told me once, “is to avoid the highs and the lows. It’s the peaks and valleys that mess you up.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “I kissed her every way I could think of. I kissed her forehead like she was my daughter. I kissed her quivering eyelids like she was my dead mother. I kissed her hard on her cheeks like you do before you kill someone. I kissed her collarbone the way you do when you want more. I pulled her earlobe with my teeth the way you do when you know what someone likes. I did everything, and she sat as pliable as a doll.”

116. “I kissed her every way I could think of. I kissed her forehead like she was my daughter. I kissed her quivering eyelids like she was my dead mother. I kissed her hard on her cheeks like you do before you kill someone. I kissed her collarbone the way you do when you want more. I pulled her earlobe with my teeth the way you do when you know what someone likes. I did everything, and she sat as pliable as a doll.”

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Tayari Jones Quote: “What was real was the dance of light in her eyes and the quick current of our blood.”

117. “What was real was the dance of light in her eyes and the quick current of our blood.”

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