Quotes About Belonging

I am not alone," said Tadis. "You are not alone. No one is ever alone, because that is not the human condition. Each of us is unique, different. Yet we are all the same, all one. That is the greatest wisdom I can give you.

I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity.

We just want to identify the "real" freaks, so we can feel closer to normal. In reality, not a single one of us is so magically normative as to claim the right to separate out the freaks from everyone else. We are all freaks to someone. Maybe even—if we're honest—to ourselves.

We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look anywhere for a mythology that embraces people like ourselves.

A broken off chip of England resting on the surface of this place.

I guess it's not the place I want to escape. It's my place in this place.

I wanted to believe someone liked me enough to claim me.

You never wanted to appear out of your element in New York. It made you vulnerable.

I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

A love that can be found within everything. And as this world turns and changes, the bits and scraps of my love that find their homes around me... There. See? One piece has just found its place in you. Just like that.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.

He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return.

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep....

We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.

y en país sin nombre me voy a morir

C'è chi cammina in mezzo a un popolo come in mezzo a una foresta d'alberi tutti eguali, indifferente; ma c'è qualcuno, continuamente ansioso, che cerca in ogni volto la muta risposta a una muta domanda. Per costui non ci sono su la terra stranieri.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

Sammy, we were together. You must know that. When I'm honest with myself, the most important parts of me were yours.

the more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect.