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“Love is something entirely different. It's realizing the storm's been raging so long you forget you're drenched, until the sun kisses your cheek, dries your tears, and shows you where your real home is.”

Book:As Far As You'll Take Me

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“I mean the kind of roots that happen privately between you and a certain place. Like you come to a place, and instead of planting a flag and saying mine, the place plants something in you. The place claims you, it knows your name and the crooked corners of your heart, and you've pledged yourself to it before you've even realized what's happening.”

Home Place St Sebastian

Book:A Lesson in Thorns

Source: A Lesson in Thorns

“Each person dying floats aside. Making room for the one that's coming. Perhaps they meet on their journey. Perhaps they wave as each heads on home”

Inspirational Home Death Family History Afterlife

Book:Brown Girl Dreaming

Source: Brown Girl Dreaming

“I’ll find my group one day. Friends I belong with, a city, a community, a place to get all those ideas out and let them be heard and appreciated. I’ll be something one day. I know I will.  For now I’m walking lonely in Prague at Christmas, feeling like the happiest, most unknown girl in the world.”

Home Lost Community Travel Lonely Christmas Alone Belonging Nomad Prague

Book:He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“I am comparing gravity with belonging... Both phenomena observably exist... but neither is understood...We know the force of gravity but not its origins; and to explain how we become attached to our birth places we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. -- from "Home" and "Shame”

Home Community Travel Belonging

Book:Home

Source: Home

“She clutched her coat tight against the chill in the air. There was nothing else to do but keep moving forward. You chose your path. You walked it. You hoped to find a way home again.”

Home Path

Book:Rule of Wolves

Source: Rule of Wolves

“When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be at home.”

Home Nature Place

Book:The Necessity of Empty Places

Source: The Necessity of Empty Places

“In the New Testament church, a man's home was his resume.”

Home Page 41

Book:What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter

Source: What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter

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