Quotes About Belonging

When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

IF YOU FEEL AS IF YOU DON'T FIT INTO THIS WORLD, IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE HERE TO CREATE A BETTER ONE.

He was nothing without his family. His causes were meaningless without his family.

I'm just glad I'm in a different cabin. It's easier if you're with other girls who are new, too. You don't have to worry as much about whether they like you." "I know what you mean," I said. Boy, could I tell you a thing or two about that!

So here I was. I would live with Joe and Mom. I had no place else to go. Joe would carve the roast on Sundays. He would put up the Christmas tree.

I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did. When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look. Now I blended in.

Course I don't own the land," she said as if speaking to a simpleton, "no body own the land. The land own us.

California is full of homesick people.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

Wir sind nicht einmal in der Lage, eine Familie zu gründen, geschweige denn, uns mit einer Partei zu identifizieren! [...] Wir wollen keine Gemeinschaft. Wir wollen unsere Ruhe.

Für einen Erwachsenen ist das Fehlen von Zeit offensichtlich eine Art Heimatlosigkeit.

Als ob eine Stadt mehr wäre als eine Ansammlung von haushoch gestapelten Heimatlosen.

Deutschland" war der Name eines Systems, in dem es nur darum ging, was wem gehörte und wer woran die Schuld trug. Jola war Deutschland. Sie kam von dort und würde dorthin zurückkehren. Theo und sie hatten ein Stück Kriegsgebiet mit auf die Insel gebracht.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

Neither of us fit in, so instead we fit together.

You didn't realize it but you always were one of the Butcher's Boys. There you were, askin' to join the gang, when all along you were the 'eart and soul of it.

Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.

One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.

You're going to be my grandmother." "You silly child. In my heart, I've been your grandmother for years. I've just been waiting for you to make it official.

I never thought I would be left behind." He chuckled. "Eloise Bridgerton, I don't think anyone wouldever make the mistake of leaving you behind.