Quotes from Reshonda Tate Billingsley

the greatest blessing can come wrapped up in the worst trouble

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

Love needs time, and time is the air love breathes, and people have no time.

Yes, we might've had our problems, but if you were that unhappy, then you should've left me. You don't seek solace in the arms of another man. You don't go to the other side, hoping the grass is greener. You water the lawn you have!

You can't change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.

Oh yeah, 'coming out may be more of a process than an event.

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.

Neither date nor time is promised, so treasure each day like it's your last.

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.

Y'all carried secrets because that's what I taught you, but secrets . . . just . . . fester

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.

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.

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

week. If Lincoln hadn't been here, she probably would've still been under the covers in her mother's bed, overcome with grief.

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.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve happiness, especially now. Maybe I'm destined for an unhappy outcome.

She shrugged. "I guess not, but at the same time, sometimes the best things are right in front of you.

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.

are now, but it's your roots, and roots determine how you sprout.

Don't miss out on blessings because you can't see that.

You can't be so busy building a life that you forget to live.

I'm just saying, sissy, love the life God gave you. Stop trying to create a different one.

guess rich folks can have some ghetto drama, too, because that was too much. But if I had to choose between rich-ghetto drama and poor-ghetto drama, I'm going with rich every time. At least I can buy some retail therapy to help me through my issues.