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Quotes About Home

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.
~ Hisham Matar
knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.
~ Hisham Matar
And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.
~ Hisham Matar
I need someone to love me,Need somebody to carry me home to San FranciscoAnd bury my body there.
~ Hoagy Carmichael
There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.
~ Holly Black
Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.
~ Holly Black
She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here.
~ Holly Black
Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home. Cardan
~ Holly Black
I guess it's true; no one will ever love you like your family.
~ Holly Black
come home and fight with me. come home and shout at me. come home and break my heart, if you must. just come home
~ Holly Black
I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.
~ Holly Black
Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.
~ Holly Black
Opening the window, I sit at Taryn's desk and sip nettle tea, drinking in the sharp salt scent of the sea and the wild honeysuckle and the distant breeze through the trees. I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.
~ Holly Black
It hadn't made sense. He wouldn't accept it. He wouldn't go home.
~ Holly Black
Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home
~ Holly Black
It is not long before we come to the royal rose garden. The guards stop at the gate, letting us go on alone. As we make our way down a path of shimmering quartz steps, everything is hushed. The wind carries floral scents through the air, a wild perfume that doesn't exist outside of Faerie and reminds me all at once of home and menace.
~ Holly Black
On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens. —Henry Ward Beecher
~ Holly Black
The song he sings is of lost places and homes so far away that they are no longer home. He sings of love so intense it is indistinguishable from hate, and chains that are like riddles of old, no longer holding him, yet unbroken.
~ Holly Black
Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.
~ Holly Black
May we see our paths clearly, may we follow them truly, and may the roads we walk always bring us back together safely from wherever we have wandered, to wherever we dare call home.
~ Holly Lisle
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
~ Homer
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
~ Honore de Balzac
Si les Français ont autant de répugnance que les Anglais ont de propension pour les voyages, peut-être les Français et les Anglais ont-ils raison de part et d'autre. On trouve partout quelque chose de meilleur que l'Angleterre, tandis qu'il est excessivement difficile de retrouver loin de la France les charmes de la France.
~ Honore de Balzac
Could it be that my father, instead of spending this money in arranging a marriage for me, would have left me to die in the convent? This was the first thought to greet me on the threshold of my home.
~ Honore de Balzac