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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.” (Silver Sparrow Quotes)
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Be careful when you leave Atlanta, because you’ll end up in Georgia.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“He’s your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that’s all we have to wok with.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it’s also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it’s also a place to change direction, but once you’ve changed it, you’re stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“I knew by then that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When you have seen your mother shattered, there’s no putting her back together. There will always be seams, chipped edges, and clumps of dried glue. Even if you could get her to where she looks the same, she will never be stronger than a cracked plate.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“It’s funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“It’s funny how you think you can know a person”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Life is full of things you never figured on.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Love is a maze. Once you get in it, you’re pretty much trapped.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“My skin stayed the same while this difference snuck in through a pore and attached itself to whatever brittle part forms my center.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“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.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“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.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Ronalda looked at me as though she couldn’t imagine an unspecial mother-daughter outing. It was like I had told her that I had money, but not the kind you could spend.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“She and I have a connection. Today, the link is rusty, the current erratic, but there will always be something between us.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Silver” is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar. It wasn’t just how they looked, it was how they were. The name came from a song my mother sang sometimes when she was getting dressed to go out somewhere special. She sang along with Aretha Franklin at the end: “Sail on, silver girl… Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“Some things were inevitable. You’d have to be a fool to think otherwise.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“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.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
“The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.”
Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow
