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Quotes About Home

I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?" "Mmm," I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?
~ Patricia Briggs
Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
~ Patricia Briggs
Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.
~ Patricia Briggs
Want to play some Battleship?" I wasn't leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
~ Patricia Briggs
If I ever become a serial murderer, I'll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station - and not my home or work.
~ Patricia Briggs
His smile grew, and the dimple appeared and … and I kissed him. I rested my body against him, at an angle so I didn't squish the cat, and thought, Here is my happiness. Here is my reason to survive. Here is my home.
~ Patricia Briggs
You come home, Daddy," she told him. "I love my mother, but if I have to live with her for very long, one of us will commit a homicide. And you bring Mercy and the pip-squeak back.
~ Patricia Briggs
Obawiam si?, ?e lustro nie wymaga ?adnych korekt – o?wiadczy? z niezwyk?? dla niego delikatno?ci?. – Z zakl?ciem jest wszystko w porz?dku, powinno te? by? kompatybilne z lustrem zamkowym. Problem polega na czym? innym. - Wiedzia?am – rzuci?a gniewnie Cimorena i zacz??a chodzi? tam i powrotem przed kominem. – W domu sta?o si? co? z?ego.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
DEEP IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST, in a neat gray house with a wide porch and a red roof, lived the witch Morwen and her nine cats. The cats were named Murgatroyd, Fiddlesticks, Miss Eliza Tudor, Scorn, Jasmine, Trouble, Jasper Darlington Higgins IV, Chaos, and Aunt Ophelia, and not one of them looked anything like a witch's cat.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Coffee was a food in that house, not a drink.
~ Patricia Hampl
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
~ Patricia Ireland
Softly and tenderly. Wisdom is calling. Calling for you and for me. Come home. Come home. All who are weary come home. Softly and tenderly. Wisdom is calling. Calling, O woman, come home.
~ Unknown
I know," said Beth, hugging her tightly. "I know." She looked back fearfully at the black hole in the ice. Then she turned her back on it. Clutching her sister, she started up the bank on wobbly legs toward the car and the road home.
~ Unknown
Old women in the house. That's all we need," grumped Grandfather. "That from an old man, of course," said Papa.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
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~ Unknown
SO FOUR DOGS AND A CAT
~ Patricia MacLachlan
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~ Unknown
You know," said Mama, "I'm going to go inside and rest. I feel tired." "I'll come in, too," I said. "I'll be in the barn," said Grandfather. "I'll come in later for a piece of cake." "Cakes don't last forever," said Mama. "Not with Grandfather around," I said.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.
~ Patricia McCormick
Each summer, with Kendra and Grif joining Amy and Luke in living at the ranch while their friends Dale Sinclair and Ellyn Neal spent more time here than at their homes in town, Far Hills Ranch was nearly what Marti had always dreamed
~ Unknown
You'd have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!'.
~ Patricia Polacco
Sewing on a button, like avoiding eye contact on the subway, is a basic life skill. Along with How to Windex a Mirror and How to Make English Muffin Pizza, sewing on a button was taught in the seventh grade by Miss Almeida in home ec. But home ec isn't on New York school curricula anymore. Home ec has gone the way of health class, where we learned you COULD get it from a doorknob.
~ Unknown