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• A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children: “I’m not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.

  S.J. Watson

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

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• And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Air

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• In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Blow, Hands

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• Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

  Tom Holt

  One Day, Evening, Boxes

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• What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

  Orson Scott Card

  Soldier, Want, Ends

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.333, Macmillan

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• I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Missing, Feelings

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

  George MacDonald

  Fall, Intellectual, Wonder

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13217, Delphi Classics

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Thinking, Eggs

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• I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

  Daniel Handler

  Night, My Boyfriend, Mouths

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

  Donald Miller

  Laughter, Children, Real

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• She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

  Candace Bushnell

  Lonely, Party, Tired

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• Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Heart, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Waiting, Cold

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Literature

  "Circling: 1978-1987". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Conversations with Atoms", Chapter: "Conversation of Atoms", p. 31), May 21, 2012.

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• Mummy’s coming home late tonight. It’ll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Drunk, Guy, Watches

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• We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Land, Trying

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I’d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” seemed too close to home at the mo-ment. “Culture Club?” Now his mouth curled downward. “And you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Song, Hurt, Mistake

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• Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Anna, Dear

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.

  Charles Yu

  Self, Two, Missing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.47, Vintage

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• NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Eye, Serial Killer

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• You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

  Danielle Steel

  Eye, Boys, Needs

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• I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

  Sara Gran

  Nice, House, Mets

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• Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-" "I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Thinking, Natural Talent

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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