logo

Quotes About Belonging

Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Home is the people who love you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
People who'd always had a family to count on and place to belong couldn't truly understand the draw of that little whisper that said There's someone like you. Someone who wouldn't hold my origins against me.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
They were—the four of them—a unit. They were Hawthornes. I wasn't.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It was warm and safe and happy-but it wasn't me. [Cassandra Hobbes]
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I this was what it meant to be a Hawthorne.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Je bent mijn kind... Van mij, Tess... Ik ben je zus niet... Nooit je zus geweest. - Ivy
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
She is one of us. We protect her.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged somewhere. With my fellow Naturals, I never had to pretend to be someone I wasn't. I couldn't have, even if I'd wanted to.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast
~ Jennifer McMahon
I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.
~ Jennifer Niven
Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don't be afraid to leave the castle. It's a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader
~ Jennifer Niven
I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.
~ Jennifer Niven
Finch scribbles something and slaps it to the wall. Welcome. He scribbles something else. Freak. He shows it to me before destroying it. He writes Belong, which goes on the wall, and Label, which doesn't. Warmth, Saturday, Wander, You, Best friend go up, while Cold, Sunday, Stand still, Everyone else go into the heap.
~ Jennifer Niven
I feel homesick for this London I left behind.
~ Jennifer Niven
Maybe it's better that she's locked away from the rest of the world. Maybe she's not cut out to live like other people with other people. Maybe she belongs in that house forever.
~ Jennifer Niven
A house you came to love was like a person, and loved you back, and then you belonged to it forever.
~ Elswyth Thane
Se tutto il resto perisse e lui restasse, io continuerei a essere; e, se tutto il resto persistesse e lui venisse annientato, l'universo mi diverrebbe estraneo; non mi sembrerebbe di esserne parte.
~ Emily Bronte
Oh! here we are the same as anywhere else, when you get to know us,' observed Mrs. Dean, somewhat puzzled at my speech.
~ Emily Bronte
Moja draga majka znala je govoriti da nikada ne?u na?i udoban dom, i ve? prošlog ljeta dokazao sam sebi da ga uop?e nisam dostojan.
~ Emily Bronte
Se tudo o mais perecesse e ele ficasse, eu continuaria, mesmo assim, a existir; e, se tudo o mais ficasse e ele fosse aniquilado, o universo se tornaria para mim uma vastidão desconhecida, a que eu não teria a sensação de pertencer.
~ Emily Bronte
Yeryüzünde her ÅŸey yok olsa da yaln?z o kalsa, ben var olmakta devam ederim; baÅŸka her ÅŸey yerinde dursa da yaln?z o yok olsa, evren bana tümüyle yabanc?la??r.
~ Emily Bronte
That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.
~ Emily Bronte
I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
~ Emily Dickinson