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• And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

  Colin Meloy

  Heart, Trying, Fiction

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• Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Eye, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2003). “A Christmas Carol”, p.182, Broadview Press

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

  Florence King

  Unique, Equality, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking for any interlopers. "Or better yet, one of the crazies who might've strayed over here. Too bad these things have to be charged or we could get rid of this virus problem in a jiffy. Sweep these old neighborhoods nice and clean." Mark joined him on the ground below the Berg, wary that someone might be watching from the ruined homes surrounding them or from the burnt woods beyond those. "Your value of human life brings tears to my eyes," he muttered.

  James Dashner

  Nice, Eye, Squirrels

  James Dashner (2013). “The Kill Order”, p.187, Chicken House

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• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Family, Happiness

  "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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• I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Games

  "Passage: Bob Lemon, 79". www.wired.com. January 13, 2000.

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• Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Heart, Care

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.991, Delphi Classics

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• Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

  E. B. White

  Happiness, People

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

  Will Durant

  Love, Motivational, Faith

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• We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Strong Women, Believe, People

  "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.

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• Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.

  David Levithan

  Breathing, Phones, Ears

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi.

  Richelle Mead

  Strong, Children, Believe

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.479, Penguin

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• JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Drama, Young Friends

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.259, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Travel, Men, Manhattan

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• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Wine, Sleep

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• I was desperate on Coming To America set - not to buy drugs or anything, but I had a person at home, a girlfriend who's telling you, "You're out the bills and food. You need this, you need that. And you either get it, or don't come back." That was me.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Girlfriend, Drug, Desperate

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• As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Grateful, Heart, Sunshine

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.66, Thomas Nelson

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• Didn't anyone tell you that size doesn't matter?" "Yes, but I told him to put his pants back on and go home.

  Christine Warren

  Matter, Pants, Size

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• (Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.

  Taylor Swift

  Pennsylvania, Crowds, Landscape

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• He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

  Rick Riordan

  Determination, Fighting, Two

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• Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you. Love, Rose.

  Hilary McKay

  Rocks, Daddy, Rose

  Hilary Mckay (2013). “Casson Family: Indigo's Star”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• I am in the jungle and I am too fast for you. You have teeth and stripes and things that tear. But I am much too fast… You want my flesh, but you don’t know where the jungle is… Only I know where the jungle is… Only I know… I am a gazelle. I am a gazelle and the jungle is my home.

  Gerard Way

  Stripes, Tears, Teeth

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• The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, War, Heart

  "Fictional character: Faramir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Stars, Lying

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.524, Jazzybee Verlag

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