“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
“Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: “You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests”. A never-interrupted voice of love speaking from eternity and giving life and love whenever it is heard. When I hear that voice, I know that I am home with God and have nothing to fear. As the Beloved, I can be tortured and killed without ever having to doubt that the love that is given to me is stronger than death. As the Beloved, I am free to live and give life, free also to die while giving life. It is the voice of a nearly blind father who has cried much and died many deaths. It is a voice that can only be heard by those who allow themselves to be touched. Sensing the touch of God’s blessing hands and hearing the voice calling me the Beloved are one and the same. This became clear to the prophet Elijah. In the tenderness of God, voice was touch and touch was voice.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“Oh don't torture my heart! I'll die of sadness in one week there. Living among strangers! How can you transplant an old tree?”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“Let them drown me, if that's what they want. Let them. You die once. What's there to be afraid of?”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“Everything that just recently had seemed eternal and solid as rock was so quickly turned into rack and ruin you just wanted to shut your eyes and forget.”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“a faith without works is an orphan without a home, without family.”
Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“Even monsters had the right to protect their home.”
Source: Bones of the Past