I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you...
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Shauna Niequist
What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place, " a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in...
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Gladys M. Hunt
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
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Charlotte Eriksson
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Not like hermits who...
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Hermann Hesse
I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
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Lauren Myracle
More Quotes By Ransom Riggs
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to...
...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.
Millard! Who's the prime minister?"" Winston Churchill, " he said. "Have you gone daft?"" What's the capital of Burma?""Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?""Good! When's your birthday?"" Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!
At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.
