Quotes About Belonging

But, then, he was the youngest child of four, stranded at the far side of a large family like a poorly used preposition at the end of a sentence.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe

Ronald Wilson Reagan: America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, "You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk." But then he added, "Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

You are not American citizens or members of the white man's world. The only American citizens are the white people who are originally from Europe. So why fight a losing battle by trying to be recognized as something you are not and never will be. I am not trying to disillusion you but merely telling you the truth.

This island chooses people, Aunt Greta said. It chose Bo and me, and I think it's chosen you as well.

Raiul era faptul ca ii avea pe toti acolo, langa ea.

home was where her mother lived.

This planet isn't my new home, it's the only home I've ever had.

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

I've spent my whole life reading beautiful books and watching beautiful movies, dreaming that there was some real place out there where I would fit and be beautiful, too.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

It was more than happiness. More than affection or gratitude. It was something deeper. It was the sense of being seen and loved exactly for who he was.

No, worse. It had never existed. I had invented it; I had allowed myself to be deluded, because I had so badly wanted it to exist. I had wanted to belong to a thing. I had wanted to need and be needed. Why are we born needing impossible things? Why is it that we all have things we need to live that simply do not exist in the universe? A purpose in life. Unconditional love? Our emotional needs met? Ha. What cruel asshole thought this shit up?

Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.

Beyond magic, the trick to going unnoticed is to look like you belong. And magic always works the better when it's assisted with symbolism and a little subterfuge.

Pussycat. Isn't it time thou didst admit where thou dost belong?

I was raised in a clade. There is no real me.

This was his wood, his mountain.

That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile's login screen: Enfranchised.

When you live with people for months on end, the relationships come to mean a lot to you. Moving from one such berth to another is not dissimilar from getting a divorce from one family and moving immediately in with the next.

Unworthy? I think not, Wolfling. Pure as the will of the pack, thou art.

If anything meant home and strength and heart and culture more to him than the New York Public Library lions, he couldn't have named it.

It appears thou has a thing that belongs to me.