Tia Williams Quotes

Tia Williams

Tia Williams is an American novelist and editor. She has published six books and is best known for The Accidental Diva, The Perfect Find, and Seven Days in June. She is also a long-time fashion editor and the current editorial director for the Estée Lauder Companies. (Tia Williams Quotes)

“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.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“Always be yourself. Unless you can be me. Then always be me.’ And here’s another one…”
Tia Williams
The Perfect Find

“And maybe that was what real, adult love was. Being fearless enough to hold each other close no matter how catastrophic the world became. Loving each other with enough ferocity to quell the fears of the past. Just being there.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“Billie and Jay flung themselves at each other like pigskin-crazed quarterbacks from opposing teams—unflinching, unmindful of the outcome, and likely to suffer a concussion.”
Tia Williams
The Accidental Diva

“Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It’s so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y’all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“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.”
Tia Williams
The Perfect Find

“I idealize you in fiction because I idealized you in real life,” he continued.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“I know what I was like.” “You don’t.” Shane went dead serious. “You burst into my solitude, demanding to be seen. You were overwhelming. Just wild and weird and brilliant, and I never had a choice. I liked everything about you. Even the scary parts. I wanted to drown in your bathwater.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“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.”
Tia Williams
The Perfect Find

“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.” (Tia Williams Quotes)
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

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

“Like when Spotify plays a song you haven’t heard since childhood, and it reminds you who you are. Like “Oh yeah, I’m a person who knows all the words to Will Smith’s ‘Wild Wild West.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“No matter how perilous the journey, it’s never over for true soul mates.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“Prison is the school of the unlearned lesson.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“Renee was entering her acquisitions meeting with the air of Scarlett throwing the Yankees off Tara. Renee was all about going into battle. She wore a fitted gray BCBG pantsuit and her shaggy bob sleekly tucked behind her ears.”
Tia Williams
The Accidental Diva

“Running away wasn’t empowering. An empowered woman would’ve indulged.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“She still loved him, and she could feel herself dying from it, like a disease.”
Tia Williams
The Perfect Find

“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.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June

“This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.”
Tia Williams
Seven Days in June