Quotes About Belonging

He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong romance she had yearned for all her life.

She made her choice. She loved Oliver. Jack was not hers to love, and never had been.

This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now yours.

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less then a love story for the ages found the life long romance she had yearned for all her life.

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

In Auradon, people stared at them because they came from somewhere else, and now on the Isle of the Lost, everyone stared at them because they'd left. In a way, it was just the same. Now they were outsiders in both places.

It didn't matter that Amelia was fluent in Mandarin and could code as well as a first-year at Peking University, she was still treated like her mother: as an interloper.

It helped that Amelia looked more like her mother's side of the family, and it was startling to see how easy it was to pass.

If she wasn't Mal from the Isle anymore, who was she?

Adoption is the appropriate response to only one situation: the need of a child for a new family, combined with a family's desire for a new child.

I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.

Families aren't always blood. You make your own.

Close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, There's No Place like Home.   —THE WIZARD OF OZ

This is a book about finding your way home—from wherever you are. It's for homesick people, eager and restless to find that place called home, even—especially—if they're not certain where home is anymore.

Even now, it still bewildered Chelsea the way Virginia and her circle of picture-perfect friends had made that amazing transition—it seemed like overnight—abandoning bikes and Barbies for boys and fashion. But Chelsea hadn't been invited to cross that bridge with them.

She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.

Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen

People who were not already divided into factions would make factions given the chance, and they would always want the most important people to belong to their faction, whether the person in question agreed with that or not.

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!