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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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• I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dog, Witty, Heart

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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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• 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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• He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Men, Years

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• "What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?"... "What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had."

  Jojo Moyes

  Book, Tired, What If

  "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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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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• She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Running, Heart, Wanted

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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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• He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but he ignored them. He was sure Karl and Johan and the others would have searched the rosebush and that entire are carefully enough; there was nothing to learn there. But he wanted to get to the hunting lodge, to find Prince Grigori and punch him in the nose for losing Petunia, and then make certain that her sisters were alright. And then her would find Petunia, and he would bring her home.

  Jessica Day George

  Horse, Hunting, Noses

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• My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Names, Katniss

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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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• « He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style. 

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Rocks, Hands

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• I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear

  Paul Simon

  Passion, Men, My Love For You

  Song: Slip Slidin' Away

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• Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

  Billie Letts

  Giving

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• Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Writing, Class

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• There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Air, Smell, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, People, Needs

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• Let me tell you about customs, James," said Lillian. "I am not accustomed to being summoned to someone else's home. You're very fortunate that I came." "I am indeed blessed," Dad told her. "I am also, by the way, called Jon." Lillian looked faintly surprised. "Are you?" "Really?" Dad asked. "Really? I was the only Asian guy who went to our school. I kind of stood out. While you are an identical twin, and I still managed to know your name.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Dad, Blessed, School

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.

  Ally Carter

  Years, Bags, Safe

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Spring, Air

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• The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Reality, Wanted

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.132, Scholastic Inc.

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• For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

  Rainbow Rowell

  School, Next Day, Feelings

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.121, Macmillan

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