“You travel around the world only to come home, they say. Stay where you are and
make it home.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Home was perhaps just this body I inhabited and this too was alien to me at times, its folds and creases, its pains and needs. Home was everywhere and
nowhere. Home, I realised now, was anywhere the heart slept in peace. Home was where one unpacked one’s cares and settled them into the wardrobe with one’s clothes. It was where one was complete.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen.”
Source: Infinite Country
“The nicest building in Patrice’s life was Lena’s Food Market off Fond Du Lac Avenue. It had shopping carts, bright fluorescent lights, and a buffed linoleum floor. Her white friends called it the ghetto grocery store, but it was one of the better markets on the North Side. And at Lena’s, Patrice never felt her existence questioned. She tried not to go to parts of the city where she did. Patrice lived four miles away from the shore of Lake Michigan: an hour on foot, a half hour by bus, fifteen minutes by car. She had never been.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“She sipped her old-fashioned. Sweet and light, with notes of orange and the herb-spice flavor of bitters, all of it balanced with the subtle burn of brandy. It tasted like Wisconsin. It tasted like home.”
Source: The Kindred Spirits Supper Club
“Creating a home on purpose frees us to do the things we really want to do.”
Source: Love the Home You Have: Simple Ways to…Embrace Your Style *Get Organized *Delight in Where You Are
“It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.”
Source: Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales
“Essere nomade per spirito, per lavoro, per scelta, significa sentirsi a casa in ogni parte del mondo. Perché il mondo è la casa di tutte le case.”
Source: Spacca l'infinito. Il romanzo di una vita
“I think....I could spend the rest of my life here and never miss the mainland for a moment."
Only when [Libby] spoke the words did she realize how true they were. Perhaps it was a strange sentiment, given how much of the week had been spent indoors hiding from the rain. But every time she'd stepped outside, be it to the beach or into charming little Hugh Town, or onto the boat that had ferried them from St. Mary's to Tresco this morning, that same sense of contentment had overtaken her.”
Source: The Nature of a Lady
“I'm God's home. With my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and passions, I was constantly away from the place where God had chosen to make home. The emotional and physical crises that interrupted my busy life at Daybreak compelled me—with violent force—to return home and to look for God where God can be found—in my own inner sanctuary. I am grateful as well for the new place that has been opened in me through all the inner pain. I am called to enter into the inner sanctuary of my own being where God has chosen to dwell. The only way to that place is prayer, unceasing prayer.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming