131 quotes found
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging...”
“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someo...”
“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and se...”
“The river of my village doesnt make you think about anything.When youre at its bank youre only at its bank.”
“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and...”
“The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the...”
“HEREIts-Can I say?Its like the song of a family where everythings always all right, its a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, its a song thatll always take care of you and n...”
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about ...”
“As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter...”
“And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.”
“I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them.”
“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want a...”
“Tru, this is your home. You are my blood kin, my second cousin thrice removed. But blood kin's not the most important kin. Do you know what is?" "No, sir." "Love kin. And that comes from the heart....”
“I didn't just see a child in my dreamsI felt it in my heart.”
“I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.”
“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”
“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
“Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed ...”
“By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both spac...”
“Our home is a belonging place.”
