Quotes About Belonging

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

She had resisted returning there because to return to one's hometown felt like surrender.

but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you — to be half of two things is to be a whole of nothing.

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people.

To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.

She had resisted returning there [to Los Angeles, the city of her birth] because to return to one's home town felt like surrender.

You are American, Japanese, Korean and by being all of those things, you are not truly any of those things.

The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

And yet, in K-town, he felt more Korean than he ever had before. Or to put a finer point on it, he felt more aware of the fact that he was a Korean and that that was not necessarily a negative or even a neutral fact about him. The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone." Simon's

A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don't you? I'm terrified of that world , and I don't want to live in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you--to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to look in his husband's eyes. "Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.

There is no Allison Springs, Maine, but I can attest to the reality of Boca Raton, Florida: I grew up there.

We are that we love.

then she said, annoyed, "You get that this is a story about you, right? That's why you lost your mind at a dog park. You're Tuesday. You're the incredibly special dog that no one can classify.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, the passage goes, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.

isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

Hey, pretty girl. How you doing?" "Adopted," she says.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you - to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

É o medo secreto de que não é possível sermos amados o que nos isola (...) mas é apenas porque estamos isolados que pensamos não sermos amáveis. E certo dia, não se sabe quando, ele, ou ela, aliás, estará lá. Será amado porque, pela primeira vez na vida, realmente não estará solitário. Terá escolhido não estar solitário.

college friends. "It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.

It is the secret fear that we are unloveable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unloveable.