131 quotes found
“Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of ...”
“Language is the only homeland.”
“I belong therefore I exist.”
“I love, so I belong.”
“[I]t doesnt matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you dont know who you are, or if youve forgotten or misplaced her, then youll always feel as if ...”
“Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.”
“...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.”
“My idea of "goodness" had to do with belonging in a small yet reciprocal way to something huge and beautiful beyond my understanding.”
“...I have big dreams, too. I used to think that made me different and strange. But when I came here and found all these books, I realized there are places in the world where I belong, even if I hav...”
“It doesnt matter where youre at, when youre with people you love, youre where you belong.”
“But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel conf...”
“Playmates share two gifts. You are loveable, and there is nothing to be afraid of.”
“I could tell he was just as scared to love as I, But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us.”
“Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.”
“But what is identity really? What is it to belong when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I ask this, in spite of my implicit allegiance to one; yet, it is a worthwhile question. I me...”
“Charles says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am his Jane; Sardar says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am my own Jane; Sahjara says that she does ...”
“he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road n...”
“You mean,' Captain Penderton said, 'that any fulfilment obtained at the expense of normalcy is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness. In short, it is better, because it is morally hon...”
“When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who a...”
“The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.”
