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Quotes About Belonging

Sweet baby Jesus, what do I have to do? Sing Closer to Fine a hundred times to earn the password to the lesbian clubhouse?" She
~ Amy Jo Cousins
This place spoke to something deep inside her. She was drawn to the water as if she'd lived her whole life here, as if it were a part of her she'd been missing. She filled her lungs with the salty air, and a calm settled over her.
~ Amy Knupp
He said it was a quintessential Pal moment—being out and about in the universe, and then unexpectedly crossing paths with someone from home base.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
I haven't had a home in so long," he said softly. "I—I want a home with you. I don't want to leave you when you're hurt, or fragile, Patrick. I want to be a guy worth making a home for.
~ Amy Lane
I will always take you home," he whispered, and Will framed his face with both hands and kissed him again.
~ Amy Lane
This house was made for family members to come inside and love each other.
~ Amy Lane
Between them all, the simplest, most obvious name for the place was Promise House.
~ Amy Lane
This sadness, this discomfort—this wasn't the judgment of someone who didn't want to join the party. This was the judgment of someone who'd assumed the party wasn't for them.
~ Amy Lane
Sammy, I worked construction for three years. I don't know if I can be any less gay, and I am too gay for this place.
~ Amy Lane
But Hector had his zoot suits, and Joey had his crosses, and Nate had the six-pointed star he wore under his shirt with his dog tags on every mission.
~ Amy Lane
Hey, I can get clear.' It's why we make music and paint pictures. So humans know we're not alone.
~ Amy Lane
How was it this kid walked this earth like he was a part of it, and Jeremy had only ever felt like a flea on its back? There had to be a flaw, Jeremy
~ Amy Lane
It had to be their home. Because Jackson literally had no place else to go, either in his person or in his heart. Scary Monsters, Running Fish JACKSON ARRIVED none too soon.
~ Amy Lane
And I'm not going to be my dad's clone. And women don't turn me on. And Oliver is my home." -Rusty (Christmas Kitsch)
~ Amy Lane
Your vibe attracts your tribe.
~ Amy Lee
Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England,Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England,Lilac in me because I am New England.
~ Amy Lowell
In a single line, Luke tells us that Jesus is, like John, fully a member of the Jewish people, not just by birth, but also in the body.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.
~ Ana Castillo
Se es de donde se quiere ser, y se pertenece a quienes se desea pertenecer... Lo mismo al revés.
~ Ana María Matute
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
~ Andre Maurois
Nessuno di noi due aveva grandi legami con gli altri nostri compagni, io per timidezza e perché li consideravo parte di un mondo che non volevo accettare, Guido perché era troppo diverso da loro.
~ Andrea De Carlo
Give me a map, let me see if Tommy Atkins or Lady Havealot can point to Jamaica. Let us watch them turning the page round, screwing up their eyes to look, turning it over to see if perhaps the region was lost on the back, before shrugging defeat. But give me that map, blindfold me, spin me round three times and I, dizzy and dazed, would still place my finger squarely on the Mother Country.
~ Andrea Levy
I yearned for home as a drunk man for whisky. For only there could I be sure that someone looking on my face for the first time would regard it without reaction. No gapes, no gawps, no cussing, no looking quickly away as if seeing something unsavoury. Just a meeting as unremarkable as passing your mummy in the kitchen. What a thing was this to wish for. That a person regarding me should think nothing. What a forlorn desire to seek indifference.
~ Andrea Levy
each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria .
~ Andrea Parrot