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“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.”

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Book:Mission to Paris

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Mission to Paris

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Alan Furst

Alan Furst, born on February 20, 1941, is a renowned American author known for his works that delve into the history and culture of Europe in the 20th century, particularly through the genre of spy novels. more

“Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... that your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too.”

Home Acceptance Patriotism

Book:Out of Oz

Source: Out of Oz

“Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home.”

Home Alone Soulmates

Book:The Address Of Happiness

Source: The Address Of Happiness

“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”

Love

Book:Turtles All the Way Down

Source: Turtles All the Way Down

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”

Truth Freedom Liberty Virtue

Author:Edmund Burke

“I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.”

Home Family Loneliness Identity Alone Paradise Isolation Coming Of Age Invisibility Paraiso Transnational

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the table where he has eaten, the branches outside the window of the room where he has slept. Only in dreams do any but the great Mages realize this magic of going home.”

Inspirational Home Fantasy

Book:The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Source: The Wind's Twelve Quarters

“It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.”

Home Television Drinking Aspiration Britain Fifties

Book:Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59

Source: Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59

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