7 quotes found
“As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.”
“How long since he'd been back home? Ten years? Fifteen? He'd stopped keeping track around the time he'd finally stopped looking over his shoulder. At the time, leaving had seemed too good to be tru...”
“You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.”
“He pressed the herb to his nose. Thyme. He loved the name and he loved the smell. He looked out the window at the illusion of deep woods. His face too was out there, hung on a tree and returning hi...”
“Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.”
“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
