Quotes About Belonging

My father might never claim me, but here, in this moment, I had finally claimed my mother for my own.

Why didn't they go back to India?" "Oh, you know how it is. Once you are outside a place you can never go back. Not really.

were adopted by Nelly, isn't that right?

Gradually, that first year in middle school, he began to understand—there were many ways to be a freak. Amy had no choice, but other people did. If you worked hard and concentrated, you could hide your freakish thoughts.

And it's not that Pearl Jam was any more amazing than anyone else. I think we just liked who we were when they were who they were.

I simply never found a specific club that I could bring myself to be passionate about. I was having enough trouble finding one person to be passionate about, let alone a whole club!

Vous allez trouver votre place." You will find your place.

The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

As adults, without our identity as a member of the tribe or village, community or culture, a likely outcome is banishment and death.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

the world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home." "Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.

Todo esto te lo digo por algo. Hay veinte personas en la sala de espera ahora mismo. Algunas están emparentadas contigo. Otras no. Pero ten por seguro que todas somos tu familia. Aún tienes una familia.

Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

You're a total freak. But you're my freak.

C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.

But today it feels as though home has come to him.

You still have a family," she whispers.

Oddly enough, though, that day with Lulu it didn't feel anything like falling. It felt like arriving

It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't feel like I belonged with my family, and now I didn't feel like I belonged with Adam, except unlike my family, who was stuck with me, Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, don't know how to be a normal person anymore.