Tayari Jones Quotes

“Women’s work is never easy, never clean.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Did I imagine that this was our pattern for all time? That we could grow old together, accusing and forgiving? Back then, I dind’t know what forever looked like. Maybe I don’t even know now. But that night in Piney Woods, I believed that our marriage was a fine-spun tapestry, fragile but fixable. We tore it often and mended it, always with a silken thread, lovely but sure to give way.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Water always finds its own level.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Ours was a love story, the kind that’s not supposed to happen to black girls anymore. This was vintage romance made scarce after Dr. King, along with Negro-owned dress shops, drugstores, and cafeterias.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“It was just the wrong race at the wrong time.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage