"He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful."

Belonging, Family, Approval, Joy

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"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."

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"They'd welcomed him aboard their ship. Nico had never allowed himself the luxury of friends, but the crew of the Argo II was as close as he'd ever come. The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty " like he was back in the giants' bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina," he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home."

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

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"What...what about when I'm married?'We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits."

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"Mine': what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which is mine only so far as I belong to it. My God is not the God that belongs to me, but the God to whom I belong; and so, too, when I say my native land, my home, my calling, my longing, my hope. If there had been no immortality before, this thought that I am yours would be a breach of the normal course of nature."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn't known how to find."

David Levithan, American Author

Belonging, Family, Identity, Connection

"That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Belonging, Identity, Truth, Inspirational, Power

"If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Sure, Nico had mixed emotions about the camp. He'd felt rejected there, out of place, unwanted and unloved - but now that it was on the verge of destruction, he realized how much it meant to him. This was the last place Bianca and he had shared as a home " the only place they'd ever felt safe, even if only temporarily."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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