Quotes About Belonging

There was a lot of other people that had their own song or their name in a verse in high school. I was just like, 'To stamp my high school career, I gotta get my name in a song.'

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

When you live alone, you even forget what it is to tell a story: plausibility disappears at the same time as friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness. But on the other hand, everything improbable, everything which nobody would ever believe in a cafe, comes your way.

Dorothy was right. There's no place like home. It

Northern Virginia could never decide whether it was a suburb of New York or a part of the Confederacy.

No man is an island,' John Donne wrote more than three and a half centuries ago. 'Every man is a piece of the continent.' The United States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Arctic to the Equator. 'I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

you shouldn't assume that just because you're clever, they will accept you as one of them. There are many who are suspicious of a first-class mind, while others will make a judgement based not on the words you say, but the accent in which they're pronounced, and some will be against you the moment they hear your name.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.

I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is about the pursuit of happiness.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and like a misfit at the same time.

Becoming a person, of course, means finding your people, and your place among them

Cecila was weird, but we're not. And then: We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right

You can leave but you can always come back. You can live here again. Life can be a circle, not just a line.

He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an S inside, Because, Suzanne, you are my home.

It's a terrible thing to feel alone when you are with other people, when those other people are supposed to be your family even thought they aren't, not really. That kind of being alone makes you feel wrong inside your own body, like you bones don't fit under your skin, like something inside your stomach wants to get out and fly away.

When you have a feeling about someone and you find out the feeling is true, its a good thing and a bad thing too. It's nice to know your gut is right, but it's terrible to know you're not wanted, especially when there's nowhere else to go

If she married a man, she could let him plan, let him push, let him maneuver; and the world they inhabited would welcome them. They would always have a place. It would be easy, and Jo was so tired.

How do you find happiness in a body like yours...like mine? How do you find courage to follow anything anywhere if you don't feel like you fit in the world?

she married a man, she could let him plan, let him push, let him maneuver; and the world they inhabited would welcome them. They would always have a place. It would be easy, and Jo was so tired.