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• When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Husband, Divorce

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.127, Knopf

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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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• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Grief, Moving

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I had been so mad at him when I left, I'd given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of the jar. He smiled. "They're at home, waiting." "For what?" His eyes glittered. "That, I cannot say.

  Kiera Cass

  Eye, Mad, Waiting

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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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• 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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• She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Country, Growing Up, Father

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• You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

  Thomas Harris

  Dog, Cat, Know How

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.36, Penguin

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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 wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Fire, Wish

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Gold, Kneeling

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• There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.

  Holly Black

  People, Goes On, Quests

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you’re so desperate to be rid of them that you’ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sight, Surround Sound, Mind

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.810, Del Rey

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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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• Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Brother, Giving Up

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs. "It is not fun on this side of the table, is it, Robert?" Uncle Eddie huffed, and Kat had to remember that once upon a time her mother had been a dark-haired girl in that kitchen, and her dad had been the stray she'd brought home. She watched the two men looking at Hale as if they'd never before laid eyes on him. "He's better-looking than the last vagabond I had to take in," Eddie said, standing and carrying empty bowls to the sink. "I'll give him that.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Mother, Uncles

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• Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Crush, Running

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

  Janet Fitch

  Daughter, Mother, Mother Daughter

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving, Forever, One Day

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

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• I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Knowing, Feelings, Answers

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot on a wooden lawn chair. Daniel sputtered a laugh and Sean tried to hide his. "Naturist, not naturalist," I said. "It means nudist." Corey leaped up and spun. "You mean old, naked butts sat on those chairs?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mean, Laughing, Naked

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• It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  People, Humanity, Survival

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.134, Penguin

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• I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Wells, Bosoms

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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