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“I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that you don't go back.”

Book:Ordinary Girls

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“He handed me one of the leaflets. It was a picture of our old house. Underneath, it said it was a character property with surviving period details, inc fire surround, in a settled residential area. Two bedrooms, two reception, kitchen and separate utility room. And that was it. Nothing about us or what happened there. You wouldn't know it was our house except for the address.”

Life Home Change Moving On Footprint

Book:Millions

Source: Millions

“Home is where freedom is, community is where accountability is.”

Home Community Freedom Brainy Quotes Accountability Social Responsibility Land Of Liberty Home Of The Brave

Book:The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“The color of truth is grey.”

Truth

Author:Andre Gide

“What did I have? My father's book and my silver coin-knife, both wrapped tight in a stolen pillowcase. Bad, snoring lightly beside me. Jane. Samuel. My own unwritten words waiting to change the shape of the world. Surely all that outweighed what I didn't have: a mother, a father, a home. Surely it would be enough.”

Love Enough Home Family Wanting

Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself.”

Self Home Family

Book:Home Remedies

Source: Home Remedies

“Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I'd left behind. If I left something in every city I've ever lived, with every person I've ever loved, at every building I've ever called home, then I would go looking.”

Love Home Memory Fragments

Book:Home Remedies

Source: Home Remedies

“I got a book, read the same lines over and over, in desperation to just pass the time and get out of those tall towers which (for quite a long time) I called home.”

Home Politics Books High School Desperation Homelessness Exclusion Student Life

Book:Red Sugar, No More

Source: Red Sugar, No More

“Sometimes a house wants to be your mother. Sometimes a house wants to hide the evidence. Some houses would smother you with good tastefulness, a claustrophobic need to impress. Some houses would like you to calm down already. Some houses want you to get the hell out. Some houses get silly with nostalgia. Some houses are destined for the aftermaths of true love. Some houses couldn’t care less: you might as well be living in generic anywhere. But no one ever is.”

Home House Architecture

Book:Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

Source: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“Raphael looked around at the sombre grey Waters lapping the Walls and the dripping Statues. She didn't say anything. 'It's usually a lot drier than this,' I said quickly in case she was thinking that my Home was inhospitable and damp.”

Home Usually Tidiness

Book:Piranesi

Source: Piranesi

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