Quotes About Belonging

Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better []For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees" Breena Bitter Frost (on the brink of discovery; about why she never quite felt like she belonged in the land over the Crystal River)

There is a place for everyone in the world. When you find yours, your heart will call it home. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series

The four of you have always felt like you're mine anyway. I'm so proud of all of you.", Aunt Sookie in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

So you're saying that, not only am I some kind of freak, I'm one of the biggest freaks you've spotted?". Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow

Oh, darling, I'm not alone." Aunt Sookie smiles as she looks over at me. "I have a wonderful trio of young people back in my house, all of whom are like family to me. I have you here, and you're more like a daughter to me than a niece.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Hah-no danger of feeling homesick with you here." "Hee hee! Thank you!

If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and I Says. No more the Anglicized Percy, I. I am now Taimur Hind.

Who among us has never been moved to tears, or to tears' invisible counterparts, by mention of the word 'home'? Is there any other word that can feel so heavy as you hold it in your mouth?

You don't mind the exclusivity, you just mind that you aren't part of it, Layla had said once, as if this was a Maryam-specific attitude rather than absolutely everyone's objection to exclusivity.

Don't set yourself apart in the way you dress, the way you think, the outdated codes of behavior you cling to, the ideologies to which you attach your loyalties. Because if you do, you will be treated differently—not because of racism, though that does still exist, but because you insist on your difference from everyone else in this multiethnic, multireligious, multitudinous United Kingdom of ours. And look at all you miss out on because of it.

I meant, it must be difficult to be Muslim in the world these days." "I'd find it more difficult to not be Muslim,

she was filled with the satisfaction of being with a group of people and knowing the words and tone that would produce exactly the effect you wanted. This was what was meant by belonging and home, words she understood in the

an Indian, introducing the English to the history of India, which was his history and not theirs. It was a surprising thought, and something in it made him uneasy. He had thought the world would change around him but his own life would stay unaffected. 'India

Why have the English remained so English?

But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

J'ai l'impression de me trouver là par erreur. Ça a toujours été comme ça. Déjà quand j'étais étudiante ou lycéenne, et déjà bien plus tôt à l'école primaire, j'avais toujours ce sentiment.

I…I belong to those who care about me.

independent of the parent. He belongs to Nature. He does not belong to the Parent. Every parent is a surrogate. Nature uses the parent to bear the child. But it does not grant her ownership of him.

I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from, they ask. Does it matter, I answer. But it does. Because how can you truly know yourself, and how can you know other place and people, if you don't even know where you come from?

It's funny,' Rado says, 'I can only be Bulgarian when I'm in France. Here, I'm semi-French. Everything is funny and bizarre, and I laugh like someone watching a Beckett play. Except I am a Frenchman with Bulgarian memories. […] But I'll never be one of them. Ah, the filthy French!

You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always be a local and a stranger at the same time.