Quotes About Belonging

Josie said] I just ... I don't like the way you treat kids who aren't like us, all right? Just because you don't want to hang out with losers doesn't mean you have to torture them, does it? Yeah, it does, Matt said. Because if there isn't a them, there can't be an us. His eyes narrowed. You should know that better than anyone.

Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.

so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.

Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.

People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul.

They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.

Cinta bukanlah suatu persamaan. Cinta bukan suatu kontrak, dan bukan suatu akhir yang bahagia. Cinta adalah papan tulis di bawah kapur tulis, tanah dari mana gedung-gedung muncul, dan oksigen dalam udara. Cinta adalah tempat aku kembali, ke mana pun aku pergi.

I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.

Home isn't a where, Olive. It's a who.

Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

Having a family means you're never alone.

I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I'm gonna make sure it isn't any shorter than it has to be.

In so many ways my entire career has been about untangling the knots that society tangles itself in as we futilely attempt to separate the us from the them.

I've always been a loner, and I've never really felt like I belong here. I'm like one of those women who read Jane Austen obsessively and still hope that Mr. Darcy might show up at the door. Or the Civil War reenactors, who growl at each other on battlefields now spotted with baseball fields and park benches. I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.

How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

I know these ghosts. I know what it's like to move around in the world, but not really be a part of it. And I know what it's like to have people stare right through you, and not believe what they are seeing. If I exist, why can't they?

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the one person who doesn't.

like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

It felt like the stamp of a passport when you reached your own country, and realized that the only reason you'd traveled was to remember the feeling of home.

I meant I like feeling you're mine.

I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family. In case you cannot do the math: no one can survive with half a heart.

Sometimes making the world a better place just involves creating space for the people who are already in it.

Suddenly Izzy's future no longer seemed impossible. It felt like the stamp of a passport when you reached your own country, and realized that the only reason you'd traveled was to remember the feeling of home.