Ellen

“But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Get on your knees when you talk to the Lord. Do not call yourself praying by lying in the bed thinking. Thinking and praying are two different things, and for something this important, you need prayer.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It’s a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.”
― Tsh Oxenreider, At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe

“A marriage is more than your heart, it's your life. And we are not sharing ours.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage