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“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.”

Book:Farewell to Matyora

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“If you have not yet prepared your mind to climb the ladder to greatness when you travel abroad, you had better stay where you are, for the moment you cross the outer edge of your country into another, you will be blown about by an irreversible breeze of change. Therefore, no matter how long you spend abroad, you will never return home to who you were before, it is either the people laugh with you or they laugh at you.”

Mind Country Home Change Greatness Laugh Breeze Prepare Ladder Abroad

Author:Elijah Onyemmeri

“It’s small wonders that call a lost person home.”

Home

Book:Eating Yellow Paint

Source: Eating Yellow Paint

“The past lay shattered and bleak, torn by trenches, thick with mines. But the future was rolling hills and untouched forest, an open sea, a fair-weather sky. Nikolai followed his queen through the mountains and knew hope would lead them home.”

Home Past Future

Book:Rule of Wolves

Source: Rule of Wolves

“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.”

Love Home

Book:As Far As You'll Take Me

Source: As Far As You'll Take Me

“And no matter where I went, I’d never get home. Because home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother’s bones lay sleeping.”

Home Lost Alone Homesick

Book:Fable

Source: Fable

“But my feet are still restless, Sara. I'm tired of moving yet I can't wait to leave. I'm homesick - I've always been so. I can't rest until I finally learn what that means.”

Home Longing Restlessness

Book:The Warden and the Wolf King

Source: The Warden and the Wolf King

“I come from there, there where I never belonged.”

Life Home Humour Belonging Mentors Prodigal Son Journey Of Self Discovery

Book:Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

Source: Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

“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

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