“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.”
Source: Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy
“Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for
coming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.”
Source: Special Forces
“إننا نفضل رأس خازرق فوق تراب الوطن على رحاب الغربة كلها. فقد وجدناها، كلها، حراباً وفِراشها أشبه بفراش فقير هندي؛ رؤوس مسامير أو خوازيق صغيرة وكبيرة على قدر المقام!”
Source: سراج الغولة: النص/ الوصية
“You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… All of the sudden, even though you have some place to put your shit, that idea of home is gone… Or maybe it's like this rite of passage… You will never have that feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start. It’s like a cycle or something. Maybe that’s all family really is: a group of people that miss the same imaginary place.”
“This is not just "our" world.”
Source: Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended
“A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it”
Source: Recipes to Remember: My Epicurean Journey to Preserve My Mother's Italian Cooking from Memory Loss
“Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.”
Source: The Greatest of Marlys
“Und was passiert, wenn du nicht mehr da bist, um [...] mich immer daran zu erinnern, wie ein Zuhause ist?”
“Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.”
Source: The Last Bride in Ballymuir
“Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.”