Quotes About Belonging

Neighborhood is family.

Šta vredi sva ta huka, kad evo do?e ovakvo vreme pa ?ovek propadne tako da ne može ni da izgine ni da živi, nego trune kao direk u zemlji i sva?iji je, samo nije svoj.

No one knows what it means to be born and to live on the brink, between two worlds....to love and hate both, to hesitate and waver all one's life. To have two homelands and yet have none. To be everywhere at home and to remain forever a stranger. In short, to be torn on a rack, but as both victim and torturer at once.

Let me tell you the meaning of the sacred and alluring garden that blooms in the heart of the desert and produces the food of life. The garden for which you are currently heading is nowhere and everywhere except in the camps. It is another name for the only place where you belong, Michaels, where you do not feel homeless. It is off every map, no road leads to it that is merely a road, and only you know the way.

When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours. Glory in Death

DEDICATED TO: YOU - it has been so long, too long, since you have had a home.

cowboy bar in Dry Creek, a place many who lived there considered

There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas.

Su habitación, que alguien pintó hace mucho tiempo de un deprimente color yema de huevo, nunca ha llegado a parecerle suya.

La cuestión que le ocupa verdaderamente, igual que ocupa al gato y al ratón y a cualquier otro animal atrapado en el infierno del laboratorio o del zoo es: ¿Dónde está mi casa y cómo llego a ella?

So what is it, he thought, that binds me to this spot of earth as if to a home I cannot leave? We must all leave home, after all, we must all leave our mothers. Or am I such a child, such a child from such a line of children, that none of us can leave, but have to come back to die here with our heads upon our mothers' laps, I upon hers, she upon her mother's, and so back and back, generation upon generation?

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

Si no hablo, si no me explico, ¿quién soy entonces? Un buey. Nadie. Quizá un psicópata. Quizá. Pero ciertamente un don nadie, un cero, alguien sin lugar en este mundo. Tú eso no lo entiendes, ¿verdad? Tú eres un hablante parsimonioso, está claro. Sopesas y meditas cada palabra antes de soltarla. Tiene que haber de todo en este mundo.

I was all a mistake! There was a black fish swimming among all those white fish and that black fish was chosen to be me. I was a sister to none of them, I was ill chance itself, I was a shark, an infant black shark. Why did you not recognize it and cut its throat? What kind of merciful father were you who never cared for me but sent me out into the world a monster? Crush me, devour me, annihilate me before it is too late! Wipe me clean...

You don't know this yet. But you are Mine - Wrath

You are perfect the way you are. Blay's voice was strong. There is nothing wrong with who and what you have always been. I'm proud of you. And I love you. Now ... and always. Qhuinn's vision got wavy. Hard-core. I'm proud of you. And I love you, Blay repeated. Always. Forget about your old family ... you have me now. I am your family.

Yo, cop. We're heading for Screamer's. You wanna come? Butch looked up at the doorway. Vishous was in the hall with Rhage and Phury behind him. The vampires had expectant looks on their faces, like they honestly wanted to hang with him. Butch found himself grinning like the new kid who didn't have to sit alone at lunch after all.

Qhuinn looked at each of the hoods again. How ironic, he thought. Nearly two years ago, an Honor Guard of black robes had been sent to him to make sure he knew his family didn't want him. And now, here these males were, come to draw him into a different kind of fold-- that was every bit as strong as that of blood.

Phury nodded. And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.

Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.

End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home.

Come here. I need to hold on to you. She felt the same way. And when there was no distance between them, it was like coming home.

I am safe, he thought to himself. With her, and her alone, I am safe… —

If you were loved, if you had people who cared about you, you could be by yourself and never feel alone. But if no one cared? You were isolated even in a crowd.