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“and home isn't here and home isn't there”

Home Sad Homeless Deborah Landau The Last Usable Hour Displaced Rootless Nowhere To Turn To

Book:The Last Usable Hour

Source: The Last Usable Hour

“She never saw it again. Day and night the river flows down into England, day after day the sun retreats into the Welsh mountains, and the tower chimes: 'See the Conquering Hero.' But the Wilcoxes have no part in the place, nor in any place. It is not their names that recur in the parish register. It is not their ghosts that sigh among the alders at evening. They have swept into the valley and swept out of it, leaving a little dust and a little money behind.”

Sad Description Howards End E M Forster Displaced Rootless

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”

Beautiful Prose Rootless

Book:Rootless

Source: Rootless

“Norge er ikke noe godt land å ha til fedreland, navnlig ikke om vinteren.”

Depression Winter Sunshine Italy Norway Rootless

Author:Henrik Ibsen

“Hvad var iveien med Edevart? Hans hænder var store og stærke, hans sener i orden, men hans sind var splittet. Her seilte han væk tom og hjemløs, han var litt isenn blit fra intet sted, hvorhelst han flakket om drog han røtterne efter sig.”

Traveller Rootless Hamsun Wayfarer

Book:Wayfarers

Source: Wayfarers

“I wished I was old. I was tired of being so young, so stupidly knowing, so stupidly forgetful. I was tired of having to be anything at all. I felt like the Internet, full of every kind of information but none of it mattering more than any of it, and all of its little links like thin white roots on a broken plant dug out of the soil, lying drying on its side. And whenever I tried to access myself, whenever I'd try to click on me, try to go any deeper than a single fast-loading page on Facebook or MySpace, it was as if I knew that one morning I'd wake up and try to log on to find that not even that version of I existed any more, because the servers all over the world were all down. And that's how rootless. And that's how fragile.”

Youth Internet Rootless

Book:Girl Meets Boy

Source: Girl Meets Boy

“A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.”

Past Language Roots England Belonging English Irritation Belong Rootless Bafflement Speciesless

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”

Book:Rootless

Source: Rootless

“The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists.”

Homeless Refugee Rootless

Book:The Hunger Star: Volume 2, The Wolfe Files

Source: The Hunger Star: Volume 2, The Wolfe Files

“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”

Book:Rootless

Source: Rootless

“- Lei non è di quella zona? - gli chiese il fotografo che viaggiava con lui. - Sì, - rispose. Tuttavia non telefonò ai suoi. Junpei prese l'aereo e ritornò a Tokyo e alla sua solita routine. Non accendeva la televisione e non apriva i giornali. Quando si parlava di terremoto, taceva. Era un'eco da un passato morto e lontano. Dopo la laurea non aveva mai più messo piede in quella città. Ma ciononostante le immagini di quel paesaggio in rovina avevano riaperto in lui ferite nascoste. Sembrava che quel disastro immane, fatale, stesse modificando impercettibilmente ma inesorabilmente diversi aspetti della sua vita. Provava un profondo senso di solitudine, mai avvertito prima. Non ho nessuna radice, pensava, non sono legato a nulla.”

Life Life Lessons Freedom Family Roots Family Relationships Family Life Family Drama Rootless

Book:After the Quake

Source: After the Quake

“The little prince crossed the dessert and met with only one flower.... “Where are the men?” the little prince asked politely. The flower has once seen a caravan passing. "Men? she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.”

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry