Quotes About Belonging

Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.

Leaving home but going back home: once you crossed the ocean you were always on the wrong side. That was the lot of the immigrant, belonging everywhere but nowhere. Displaced, and unplaced.

They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.

Music is my home.

There's a weight to having a destination and a purpose, even if that purpose is saying hi to a stranger as he's leaving a cemetery. It tethers me, the way being a mother used to. It makes me feel as though I'm part of something more important than myself.

She's never really wanted to be the only person, she's never been such a fan of being alone.

All of us are better when we're loved.

You're exactly where you should be, Legs. With me.

I recently moved to Los Angeles and found out there's an entire city of people who never "fit in!" It's the "land of misfit toys." How great is that? So for those of you out there who are "unique," congratulations on recognizing it, and get comfortable with it, because it's a part of you and one day you'll stumble upon people who totally get you.

I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.

Mom's Israeli. Dad's Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department

It'd be fun, you know. Just once. To wake up Christmas morning with snow on the ground and stockings full of presents that no one had to steal and a house that's really home." She reclaimed the teapot and slowly slipped back into the con. "That would be nice. Maybe, someday, we'll steal that." On

She is sitting right here!" Kat didn't realize she was yelling until her uncle looked at her in the manner of a man who has not been yelled at in a very long time. "I'm here." Kat said in a softer voice. She didn't say, I can hear you. She didn't tell him, I came home. She didn't promise, I'm not going anywhere. There were at least a dozen things that she might have said to reclaim her place at the table, but there was only one that really mattered.

Estoy cansada de no saber dónde morirme. Ésa es la mayor tristeza del emigrado. ¿Qué tenemos nosotros que ver con los cementerios de los países donde vivimos? [...] ¿No comprendéis? Nosotros somos aquellos que miraron sus pensamientos uno por uno durante treinta años. Durante treinta años suspiramos por nuestro paraíso perdido, un paraíso nuestro, único, especial.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

Royal Oaks, Michigan

Truly, it is what we love that gives us our names.

Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}

Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it's not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.

For the moment, I'm just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

Il détestait se sentir orphelin de livres, comme si aucun bouquin n'avait voulu de lui : il demeurait persuadé que c'était les ouvrages qui adoptaient leurs lecteurs et non le contraire.

Ser de un determinado lugar quizá consiste en eso: no comprender en qué consiste.

I had always been alone and wouldn't have minded if it had been a matter of choice. It never had been. I dreamed of being integrated, if only to give myself the luxury of subsequently disintegrating.

Siempre resulta más bonito llevar un nombre. Habitar unas sílabas que habitan un todo es uno de los asuntos más relevantes de esta vida.