"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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"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

"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

"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

"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Belonging, Home, Identity, Choice

"We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others."

Brennan Manning, American Author

Belonging, Love, Validation, Emotion

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"How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different."

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"It's so Hogwarts."

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"I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."

Love

"You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter."

Perception

"I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me."

Uncertainty

"Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time."

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"I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

"We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others."

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"How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different."

"It's so Hogwarts."

"I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."

"You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter."

"I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me."

"They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!"

"Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys."

"And we're finally home."

"I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons."