"He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there."

Belonging, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Today

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"He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there."

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"He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. He pulled out his book."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Belonging, Home, Memory, Hope

"Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it."

John Updike, American Novelist

Belonging, Russia, Longing, Identity, Paradox

"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Belonging, Home, Happiness, Joy

"And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Belonging, Family, Support, Help, Tradition

"I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Belonging, Community, Healing, Connection

"Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

Belonging, Love, Emotion, Truth

"I give her the only honest and true answer I have.'You're where I want to be."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

Belonging, Love, Honesty, Presence

"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Belonging, Home, Happiness, Surprise

"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."

Gayle Forman, American Journalist

Belonging, Existence, Life, Truth

"Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

Belonging, Heart, Journey, Home, Soul

Explore more quotes by Terry Pratchett

"WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?"

Humor

"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

Body

"The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football."

Wisdom

"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."

Wisdom

"Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It's a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."

Emotion

"It is a mystery,' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like mysteries. Mysteries had a way of getting bigger if you didn't solve them quickly. Mysteries pupped."

Mystery

"Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said."Me? Of course not!"Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

Humor

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

Philosophy

"It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King."

Strategy

"Genuine anger was one of the world's great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge."

Power