“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.
“Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors, are mysterious apparitions, who come, go, and do strange unfathomable things in and around the child, the region’s only enfranchised citizen.
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We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“Hidup adalah perjalanan untuk membangun rumah untuk hati. Mencari penutup lubang-lubang kekecewaan, penderitaan, ketidakpastian, dan keraguan. Akan penuh dengan perjuangan. Dan itu yang akan membuat sebuah rumah indah.”
Source: Ibuk,
“It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky.”
Source: The Beginning of After
“Your home is living space, not storage space.”
“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“He smiled, "Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home." He played with my thumb and grinned. "N'est-ce pas?"
"Beautiful logic," I said. "You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don't go there?"
He laughed. "Well, isn't it true? You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“Children, language, lands: almost everything was stripped away, stolen when you weren’t looking because you were trying to stay alive. In the face of such loss, one thing our people could not surrender was the meaning of land. In the settler mind, land was property, real estate, capital, or natural resources. But to our people, it was everything: identity, the connection to our ancestors, the home of our nonhuman kinfolk, our pharmacy, our library, the source of all that sustained us. Our lands were where our responsibility to the world was enacted, sacred ground. It belonged to itself; it was a gift, not a commodity, so it could never be bought or sold. These are the meanings people took with them when they were forced from their ancient homelands to new places.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do.”
Source: Before I Fall
“Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods