Top 100 Tia Williams Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Like Elizabeth Taylor said, ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”

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3. “You can’t imagine the utter bottomlessness of my disinterest in your opinion.”

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4. “Shane cupped her face in his hands. “It never ends, does it? Loving you never ends. Whether you’re Genevieve or Eva. Whether I lose you for years or wake up to your face every morning. I love you. You’re my home. And I want you forever.”

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5. “I wanna be everything,” he said, his mouth against her ear. “Wanna be the reason you light up. I wanna make you laugh, make you moan, make you safe.”

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6. “I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it’s indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.”

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7. “No matter how perilous the journey, it’s never over for true soul mates.”

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8. “I idealize you in fiction because I idealized you in real life,” he continued.”

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9. “Because I barely survived Shane Hall. I barely survived myself. It was a dark time. My home life was traumatic. I was a chaotic, angry kid. Why reminisce?”

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10. “I don’t want these clinical, awkward setups. I don’t feel like doing this twenty more times. I can’t imagine meeting my soulmate through an interview process. I want to know without words. I want fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it’s indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no choice connection.”

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11. “Running away wasn’t empowering. An empowered woman would’ve indulged.”

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12. “Women didn’t get to be bad boys.”

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13. “A tree grows its branches out until it touches the tips of the next closest tree. And they’re linked forever. Because if they’re really close, their roots grow together. They’re so intertwined underneath that no matter what happens above ground, they stay connected.”

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14. “The world was too loud for little-boy Shane. What he didn’t know was that he was training himself to be a deeply empathetic writer – understanding nuanced emotion, spying humanity in unexpected places, seeing past the obvious. He was taking notes for his future self, who would write it all down.”

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15. “Acting sober is an art,” he explained. “The trick is to say very little and be very still.”

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16. “I’m alone. When I’m comatose from writing and mothering, when I’m hurting too badly to cook, talk, or smile, I curl up with ‘alone’ like a security blanket. Alone doesn’t care that I don’t shave my legs in the winter. Alone never gets disappointed by me.” Eva sighed. “It’s the best relationship I’ve ever been in.”

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17. “Adult social stuff can’t be harder than seventh grade. It’s not hard to make friends. Just be an active listener. If you listen hard enough, you can tell what a person needs from you. And if you give them what they need, you’ve got a friend for life.”

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18. “Yeah, but like, I just wanna ask her if she wants to go with me to Cold Stone or whatever. Get some ice cream,” grumbled Ty. “You’re doing too much.” “See, you don’t even need my help! You got a plan,” said Shane encouragingly. “Just ask her out tomorrow. And be confident with it. If you believe you’re that dude, she will, too.” “Maybe I should ask her if she’s lactose intolerant first.” “Under no circumstances should you do that.” “Nah, you right.”

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19. “I want to be the thought that lulls you to sleep. The memory that gets you off.”

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20. “History doesn’t repeat itself,” said Shane. “But it rhymes.” “Who said that? Nas?” “Mark Twain.”

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21. “I stayed alive for you, and you. But you killed me anyway.”

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22. “Destigmatizing male vulnerability is the first step toward rebuilding the absolute ruin that straight men have left the world in.”

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23. “I wanna be where all your paths end.” He nipped her earlobe. “I wanna do everything you do to me.” He pulsed his finger then, and she came with a shuddery cry. “You’re hired,” she breathed.”

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24. “Damn, he’s an Aries. The thots of the zodiac.”

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25. “I’ve always loved you,” he whispered. “What a coincidence,” she whispered back. “I’ve always loved you, too.”

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26. “I’ve been roaming around forever, and I’ve never been anywhere I wasn’t itching to leave.”

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27. “I thought you were a problem that needed solving. But you don’t need solving. You need understanding.”

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28. “Isn’t it obvious?” “Apparently not.” “I’m not just writing about you,” said Shane. “I’m writing to you.”

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29. “An angel among mortals.”

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30. “I’m not good at normal-people small talk. I always want to get weird. Start a conversation about wildly unfounded conspiracy theories. Liminal spaces. Dermoids.”

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31. “He’d forgotten, because he had no experience with being needed.”

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32. “All she wanted was to escape this repetitive, redundant hell.”

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33. “Listen, caring about things don’t maek you soft. IT makes you alive.”

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34. “You’re a sane person reacting to an insane situation.”

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35. “Religion. Hmm. I guess it’s like fire. In good hands, fire can be used to do positive things, like keep you warm. Make s’mores. In bad hands, it can burn a witch at the stake. Lynch a Black body.”

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36. “She has the complexion of a wealthy infant.”

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37. “Over the years, during lazy daydreams, she’d sometimes allowed herself to fantasize about running into him. But in her thoughts, they’d still been kids. She couldn’t imagine them relating to each other as adults. Whatever Shane sparked in her, she’d thought she’d outgrown. But they weren’t who they used to be. They were better.”

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38. “Go ’head and judge me, miss. I fear nothing but the pitiless gaze of the Almighty. You could be Mommie Dearest or Clair Huxtable – don’t matter what kind of mother you are; daughters always blame moms for every mess they make.”

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39. “No matter how perilous the journey, it’s never over for true soul mates. Who doesn’t want a connection that burns forever, despite distance, time, and curses?”

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40. “Acting sober is an art,” he explained. “The trick is to say very little and be very still. And if you do that too well, sleep inevitably happens.”

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41. “The burden isn’t on me to explain it, Rich. The burden’s on y’all to fix it. Good luck.”

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42. “Then he met Eva, and she breathed the same air. She stuck to his bones, imprinted herself on his brain – and thoroughly rearranged his world, in the best way.”

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43. “Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.”

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44. “Every time one of her terribly dysfunctional relationships imploded, she was confused and stunned. And then with fresh hope, she’d fling herself at another jackass.”

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45. “Shane wasn’t far removed from the man he’d been when he passed out on Gayle King’s shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he’d won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.”

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46. “This is that family feeling, he thought. Of total acceptance, belonging to people. A connection that eclipsed everything.”

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47. “Don’t you want to know why?” With twinkly eyes, he said, “Tell me later.” “Bold of you to assume there’ll be a later.” “Bold of you to assume there won’t be.”

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48. “Shane was the memory she couldn’t escape. The bridge she’d never burn. The.”

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49. “Are you speaking metaphorically,” asked Cece, “or are you dating a man named Alone?” “You can’t be serious.” “My doorman is a SoundCloud rapper named Sincere. One never knows.”

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50. “You know you’re the turtle, right? The one who comes and goes as he pleases while I wait for you?”

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