Quotes About Belonging

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Oh, my, you are one of the Chosen People, mocked Black-eyes. Of course I am, retorted Emily.

the best of it all was the coming home.

home" must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

It's nice to be needed

But it's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?

Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this man's.

him life just as much as you did, Mrs. Dr. dear, Susan was wont to say. He is just as much my baby as he is yours. And, indeed, it was always to Susan that Shirley ran, to

Birbirine ait olan ÅŸeyler daima bir aradad?r. Bunu bilmiÅŸ olsalard?, baz? insanlar bir sürü sorundan kurtulmuÅŸ olurdu. Ancak bilmiyorlar, bu yüzden cennete ve dünyaya hükmeden güzelim enerjiyi, birbirine ait olmayan ÅŸeyleri bir araya getirmeye harc?yorlar.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.

Josie is a Pye," said Marilla

L.M. Montgomery

Oh, but it's good to be alive and to be going home,' breathed Anne.

But there is strength in numbers and at noon hour Emily found herself standing alone on the playground facing a crowd of unfriendly faces. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence

many bitter tears when she parted with Maywater chums and the old manse there where her mother had lived and died. She could not contemplate calmly the thought of such another and harder wrench. She COULDN'T leave Glen St. Mary and dear Rainbow Valley and that delicious

it's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.

L.M. Montgomery

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

My mother had to leave many traditions behind and the more time passed, the more they mattered to her.

All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted.

She's as bad as the most racially deprived white person fetishizing Asian culture. Her interest in Dagou, in the Chao family, is entirely due to her sense of deprivation after having been raised as racially Chinese in a well-meaning but white American family. Can't she get over it?

All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son.