Staying Put Quotes

“...I find it hard not to think of our home as a chrysalis from which the butterfly has flown. I miss my daughter. The rug bristles with the absence of her dancing feet. The windows glint with the history of her looking. Water rings on the sills recall where her teacup should be. The air lacks a sweet buzz.”
― Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World

“If we are ever going to dwell in the house of the Lord, I believe, we do so now. If any house is divinely made, it is this one here, this great whirling mansion of planets and stars.”
― Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World