Ellen

“It was a wonderful feeling to be grown and yet young. To be married but not settled. To be tied down yet free.”
― 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

“Everything I do is a love letter addressed to you.”
― 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