The Thing About Home Quotes

“Do the things I couldn’t. The women before you could only dream their dreams.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“You have to make your heart good ground for the next season of your life.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“The days have been dark, and the times are hard, but there has always been love, even before Freedom. Find love and keep it. It’s the only thing that no man or woman can take away.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“Lord, repair and return to the descendants of enslaved Africans what is theirs. Give Your children what we worked for. Give an inheritance to those in their bloodline—emotionally, physically, financially—all that was stripped away from us through the generations . . . return it. Let what we built come back to us—righteously.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“Sometimes when a woman ends a marriage, she don’t have no grief left because she grieved the end of that marriage while she was still in it, moving day-to-day, waiting for the change to come that would separate her from her husband. By the time she is legally free, the emotional healing was already done.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“You can do all things through Christ, baby. You set your mind, commit in prayer, and get to work. It’s that simple.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“You’re a Black woman. That means your DNA is made up of survival genes.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“teenagers who could use a real role model instead of a perfect one.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“Love wasn’t supposed to save me or validate me or prove anything to anyone. Love had one job, and that was to add to the joy I already had.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

“Half of it. There’s no fountain of youth. The secret of staying young is walking, water, and vegetables.”
― Rhonda McKnight, The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel