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The Untelling QUOTES

The Untelling QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " ...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

5 " 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

6 " Our past is never past & there is no such thing as moving on... "

― Tayari Jones , The Untelling