The Untelling Quotes

“I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling

“Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. but there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling

“...he says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling

“Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it would be my blood that would call upon hers.”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling

“Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling

“Mama believes that the intensity of pain is directly related to its proximity. This is why she likes living where she does---close enough to ache but too far to bleed.”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling

“Our past is never past & there is no such thing as moving on...”
― Tayari Jones, The Untelling