Quotes About Belonging

She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol that instantly genie-summoned the Blue Moon Lodge. It was Winnemucca condensed, this book, the only thing she owned that could still predictably take her from here to there.

However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.

Tenemos tres tipos de familia: aquéllos de los que nacemos, aquéllos que nacen de nosotros y aquéllos que llevamos en el corazón.

I have finally learned that I am as much a part of this country as those villagers. Whether they like it or not, my umbilical cord is buried in the earth of Vietnam just like theirs.

There's no place like home, especially if it's Serenity, South Carolina.

It's the human condition. We're all more or less looking for a place to hide.

It's like this, when you live in a place you've always lived in, where your family has always lived. You get to see things not only in space but in time too.

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you remember me by? - or even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help?

I am home, she thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought. I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb.

very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another. (The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith - Version 1)

Do you always go where you're not wanted?" Eleanor smiled placidly. "I've never been wanted anywhere," she said.

She was a stranger in a world of strangers and they were strangers she had left behind

An Eleanor, she told herself triumphantly, who belongs, who is talking easily, who is sitting by the fire with her friends.

I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb.

Ich versteh dich nicht.« Theodora schmiss ärgerlich ihren Stift hin. »Gehst du immer dahin, wo du nicht erwünscht bist?« Eleanor lächelte friedfertig. »Ich bin noch nirgendwo erwünscht gewesen«, sagte sie.

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by? - or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help?

home seemed so far away that perhaps it did not exist at all.

Eleanor thought, I am the fourth person in this room; I am one' of them; I belong.

You see, I come from Mezritch, though I grew up in Mazapevke, but Vorotolivke is where I'm still registered.

If I thought it felt good to come home to the place I loved and find that it waited for me, it was nothing compared to the feeling of returning to a God who loved me and who waited for me. That was home, true home.

I could see the solace she discovered. Here she could sing and dance and shout for glory among people who didn't care which pew she sat in, whose people she belonged to, and whether she was baking a roast for the church homecoming. They were people who yearned for one thing, and one thing only: a pure relationship with that part of the Trinity so often neglected in organized worship. The Holy Spirit. Slouching

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member