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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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• His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Dream, Creatures

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.144, Scholastic Inc.

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• I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Mother, Father

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• I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!" "Adrian?" "What are you doing here?" "Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home." "No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

  Richelle Mead

  Needs, Heirlooms, Royal

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• Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Way

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• I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

  Mother Teresa

  Family, Thinking, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.

  Sylvia Day

  Morning, Coffee, Night

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• Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Thinking, Deep Thought

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

  Laini Taylor

  Stalking, Ifs

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• The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

  Dan Black

  Marriage, Determined, Measure Of Success

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• Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

  Achille Silvestrini

  Business, Ethics, Stay At Home

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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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• Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

  John Wayne

  Women, Long, Want

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• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

  Ugo Betti

  Family, Thinking, Parent

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

  Debby Boone

  Being Happy, Piano, Singing

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• I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Family, Beautiful

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.

  William Steig

  Happiness, Iron, Magic

  William Steig (1969). “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble”

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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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• 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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• Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

  William Penn

  Real, Heart, Unions

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

  Tom Freston

  Kids, Learning, Mtv

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• A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Learning, School, Color

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• I love Love - though he has wings,
  And like light can flee,
  But above all other things,
  Spirit, I love thee -
  Thou art love and life! Oh come,
  Make once more my heart thy home.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Art, Light

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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