Home Quotes - Page 21

• a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

  Eric Weiner

  Simple, Want, Dies

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• I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

  Carson McCullers

  Horror

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—

  Isaac Marion

  Remember You, Remembers You, Bye

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake." "And yours," he said before he could stop himself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Want, Sake

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now he'll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements, there will be no canoe races this Saturday.

  Rick Riordan

  Race, Speech, Littles

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems -- Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Dream, Ocean, Journey

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• The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Husband, Doctors, Two

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• Good?” Cam said. “Right?” I took another bite and nodded. “Well, I have a whole ton of them at home.” He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. “Just saying.

  J. Lynn

  Napkins, Just Saying, Said

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.25, HarperCollins UK

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• I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

  Charles Bukowski

  Night, Voice, Sick

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• Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Song, Wind

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• Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Men, Leaving

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Destiny, Visits You, Shadow Of The Wind

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• Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

  John Green

  Heart, Good Friend, Hard Times

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• I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Pain, Men

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Thinking, Waiting

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

  Stephen King

  Hunting, Night, Snacks

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Home is where you can be yourself.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Being Yourself

  Adam Gidwitz (2013). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.171, Random House

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• There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

  Edna O'Brien

  Book, Men, Steps

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• Darling," he said distractedly,"about the moon..." "Yes?" "I don't think it matters whether you want it or not." "What are you talking about?" "The moon. I think it's yours." Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. "Fine. i'm glad to have it." "But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody. But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Moon, Thinking

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• Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

  Abbi Glines

  Two, Hours, Yeah

  Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• And I'm certain one day, you'll make it back home. With love, Your friend and Cêpan, -H

  Pittacus Lore

  Back Home, One Day, Certain

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• I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Intention, Expecting, Patches

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• But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in your memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.

  Claire Messud

  Memories, Ideas, Littles

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.118, Vintage

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• Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

  Margaret Atwood

  Soul, Needs, Too Much

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.326, Anchor

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