“When I take this walk, the apartment is always empty. I move through it like a phantom, and I have begun to wonder what exactly happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?”
Source: What I Loved
“Be a Boss, Run a company, Own a movement but never let your heartbeat be anywhere else but home!”
“Just as you would greet your family or your pet, say, 'Hello! I'm home,' to your house when you return. If you forget when you walk in the door, then later, when you remember, say, 'Thank you for giving me shelter.”
Source: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
“At a certain point as a child, we notice that the food at home is not the same as the dinners our friends eat.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“She always felt at home in a room which had books.”
Source: The Redemption of Philip Thane
“You walked into my mess and called it your own. You looked into my heart and called it your home.”
“Culture and ethics bind us as a family.”
Source: Breathing Two Worlds
“Lots of words have been written about home being where your heart, your love, your dog, your parakeet, whatever, is. I get it—bricks and mortar don’t make a home and all that jazz …
For me, home is where you find the touchstones of your life …
… And that’s the thing about touchstones: Unlike a house, you can take them with you.”
Source: South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land
“It was as if I had inherited a palace by virtue of simply being in love.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir