“Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

“it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

“I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

“I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.”

Melissa Senate (1965) american writer

“And besides, now that I’d finished high school, all I wanted to do was to stay on the ranch and work with our workers from Mexico. These were my people. This was where I belonged and felt at home.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet