Quotes About Reunion

Charlie's Homecoming

It's a thing to see when a boy comes home.

Come along, said Joad. Pa'll be glad to see you. He always said you got too long a pecker for a preacher. He picked up his coat roll and tightened it snugly about his shoes and turtle.

I am incomparably, incredibly, overwhelmingly glad to be home. I've never been so goddam lonesome in my life.

It's a thing to see when a boy comes home. It's a thing to see.

Standing amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in unseen about to land, is not his son Nelson and daughter-in-law Pru and their two children but something more ominous and intimately his: his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

Today is like our first day of School, the butterflies are back as we remember the friends we made years ago. Our future may not be going down the same path, but our friendship we will always have. Till we meet again.

e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in: No caminho de Swann

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again

back for some lunch?

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

So we troop out to the coast, and every time we meet someone from back home we fall on their necks and weep. Stupid, eh? Neither of them think it is stupid. You Can't Go Home Again, said Thomas Wolfe. Morag wonders now if it may be the reverse which is true. You have to go home again, in some way or other.