Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
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Stephanie Perkins
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called...
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Rebecca Solnit
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
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Pascal Mercier
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter...
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Sarah Dessen
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
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Margaret Atwood
More Quotes By Robert Laxalt
He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.
Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.
