Miss Pearly's Girls Quotes

“Change your perspective. It could change your life.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“All of you are hurt. You’re hurt because of the secrets. The secrets that have festered inside.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Hate takes too much energy. Try love instead.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“fathers were people, and people can sometimes be monsters.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“This might not be who you are now, but it’s your roots, and roots determine how you sprout.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“I forgot how much you bring to my life. I hate that we’ve missed all this time together,” Stella said once they’d pulled apart.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“I’m just saying, sissy, love the life God gave you. Stop trying to create a different one.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“You can’t be so busy building a life that you forget to live.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Don’t miss out on blessings because you can’t see that.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“are now, but it’s your roots, and roots determine how you sprout.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“That’s the thing that you never have understood, Stella. You’ve run from your life. All your life that’s been your MO. You’ve always wanted something more.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“She shrugged. “I guess not, but at the same time, sometimes the best things are right in front of you.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Sometimes I feel like I don’t deserve happiness, especially now. Maybe I’m destined for an unhappy outcome.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Stella couldn’t help but smile. It felt good to have someone take control of her well-being, to be able to share the emotional weight of supporting her and stepping up in ways she didn’t expect.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Stella couldn’t help but feel she’d diminished him too—regulating him to nothing more than a good time. But his being there, his love and concern—his ability to encourage her alternative thinking—had her ready to reconsider.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“week. If Lincoln hadn’t been here, she probably would’ve still been under the covers in her mother’s bed, overcome with grief.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“There is nothing wrong with wanting something more, but this was the place that employed your parents, kept you safe, healthy, and educated you. It’s the place your mom tucked you into bed, and you”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“And that’s okay, but you don’t have to erase your past for a different future. This is a wonderful place, especially because I know it lay the foundation for the amazing woman you are today.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Y’all carried secrets because that’s what I taught you, but secrets . . . just . . . fester”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Oh yeah, ‘coming out may be more of a process than an event.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“You can’t change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Mama Pearly saying, “Seize your happiness.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“I want to know how I can break down that wall and prove to you that I’m the man for you and figure out what we need to do to go to the next level.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Family business stays in the family, her mother had always said right after she’d told them, When all is said and done, family is all you got.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“He was good at getting her sister pregnant. That dude had super sperm that made him a gold medalist in making babies. Her sister had five children, more than halfway to having the starting lineup for a baseball team.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Family business stays in the family,” was a mantra Maxine had heard all her life.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Stella had seen his corduroy jacket and ostrich boots in the Neiman Marcus catalog, and together those two items cost more than her car.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“Allow yourself to envision us together,” he’d told her just last week. Stella shook her head. No, there was no future with someone she was ashamed to be seen with in public.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“But how could they be together on any permanent basis when she only felt comfortable with him in her bedroom?”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

“keep telling you I’m just trying to get my life together and then I’ll be able to buy you,” he said, stroking her hair.”
― ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing