Quotes About Belonging

Be in the World, Not of the World—Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they're not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you're a pretty marshmallow.

There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.

Everyone cared what others thought, even those who were defiantly different. They cared more than anyone.

But she was Barbara Monroe, of Chicago, Illinois. She had attended a big-city high school, Mather. A big school in a big city was easier to fake than a small one, because anyone could be forgotten in a big school.

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

I'd come home but nearly everybody does. It's the ones that don't go home that I feel sorry for, they're not happy.

Tu' eres de dos mundos." He was wrong, of course. You can only belong to one world at a time.

Te sobra el nombre cuando no tienes quien te llame con afecto.

Frankie had no idea that too many people believed you could be from a right place or a wrong one.

Dear reader who finds this, if I am gone My name is Jinny I lived on this island I loved it I held on Too long

After a moment, she decided to stick out her own little hand alongside the other two, as though this was the way people greeted each other on the island. Hand extended, she looked up at the boys for approval.

Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?

That's about it kid. When you're in you're in, when you're out, you're out.

Being a Christian means being a pariah, Lauren, it means not fitting in anywhere in this world.

Sometimes I cannot say much about why I go to church other than what people who go to the gym say: I always feel better once I'm there; I feel better after; it is always good for me, not good in a take-your-vitamins way, in a chidingly moralistic way, but in a palpable way.

Hannah has gone over to her friend Delaney's house. Hannah has a slew of friends with names like that, Delaney and Cassidy and Reilly, and even a tiny, owlish girl named O'Malley: names, it seems, that their parents plucked arbitrarily from the Boston phone book.

I felt warm and happy,because the message in his eyes was,YOU'RE MINE AND I'M YOURS.

Acas? e unde s?l?sluie?te inima.

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

Marco Polo aprendeu a ultrapassar a sua condição de estrangeiro no Império Mongol, para chegar à conclusão de que, agora que estava em casa, tinha-se tornado uma vez mais um estrangeiro.

There are many places that are not made for staying," Heckleck said. "They are too harsh, too hard, and too far away from whatever you call home. You don't root where you don't have to, unless you're unluck.

There's no entrance exam. If you say you're a geek, you are a geek.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.