“I began to understand what it meant to make a home and just how much I had taken mine for granted”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“I have video surveillance at my home because my risk assessment regarding my research indicates I am at high risk of abduction.”
“You can change careers, friends, and even partners, but the body always comes with you. You cannot emigrate from your body. Cosmetic surgery may be capable of removing the pockets from under the eyes—at least for a few years. […] The body is the house that we always reside in. […] When we talk about self-worth, we are not just referring to some inner “ghost in the machine.” We include hands, feet, legs, belly, chest, and shoulders. Whatever age these parts of us may be, whether they are too big or too small, too long or too short, even healthy or sick, when can we make peace with each vital part of ourselves and recognize its intrinsic value?”
Source: The Self-Worth Safari: Valuing Your Life and Your Work
“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
Source: The Dragon's Promise
“Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means.”
Source: Catching the Light
“To truly return, we must belong (, and that man came to understand that he no longer belonged to the place he'd left as a sixteen-year-old boy).”
Source: Noviembre
“Our power is in our homeplace, in our roots”
Source: The Wild Folk Rising
“An interesting thing about kitchens: while ghosts are most drawn to the dark, deserted areas of the house, typically the attic or basement—or closets, in the case of our current boogeyman—the kitchen, in my experience, tends to be the least haunted area. Maybe it’s the fact that kitchens are well-lit, but they’re also the center of activity for the living, the emotional energy constantly churned and refreshed. They’re the heart of the home, and I think something about that keeps the restless spirits at bay, hiding in the shadows. There are plenty of exceptions, of course.”
Source: The Crawling Darkness
“It hits you in unexpected moments, this city's romance; everywhere, air pockets of loveliness just when your lungs can't take any more congestion or pollution or stifling newspaper headlines.”
Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan