Quotes about home
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“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"A Trip to Anhwei", in With Love And Irony (1940), p. 145

Beauty, Travel

“Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured… it was like coming home.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Whitney: Where is your home?
Clayton: Wherever you are.”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Books, Sense, Time

“"You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, p. 343
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Life, Way, Thinking

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

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Feeling

“Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew."

Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Boy

“And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

Death, Hate

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Family, Family

“My troubles are over, and I am finally home.”

Anna Sewell (1820–1878) English novelist

“I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Heart, Night

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Reading, Night

“And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

Source: Desert Places

People

“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Light, Water, Parting

“Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin.
I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Daughters

“« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Flying

“It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Love, Moms, Universe, Night

“His laughter echoed through my mind. I have a beautiful woman in my arms, and am taking her back to my home, where she and I will be alone and able to indulge whatever fantasies we choose. What is there not to enjoy?”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Sex and the Single Vampire

Beauty, Laughter

“Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits."
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Tanner's Scheme

Moms

“The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Life, Men, Truth, Soul

“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

Behavior, Girl

“You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Coffee, Night

“You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home… Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism…”

William Peter Blatty book The Exorcist

Source: The Exorcist

“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

Fear, Dreams

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Disease, Dogs, Night

“Right. That’s the end of the line for you tonight. You’re going home, I’m seeing you safe inside, and I’m going home to hide in a closet until this blows over. I suggest you do the same.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Thinking, Hurt

“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”

Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

Love, Strong, Sun

“If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

Soul

“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Heart Touching

“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

"Epitaph" from Smart Set (December 1921)
1920s

Girl, Forgiveness

“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Angels, Heart, Joy

“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Standup Comic (1999)

“Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Travel, Personality

“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.”

Kathy Reichs book Déjà Dead

Source: Déjà Dead

Feeling

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Reading

“My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.”

Elise Broach (1963) American writer

Source: Shakespeare's Secret

Feeling, Moms

“I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Feeling

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Feeling

“Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Clothes

“Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Life, Truth, Solitude, Time

“In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Up, Simba
Essays
Variant: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Context: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Reality

“God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

God, People, Family

“Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you.
I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know I’d be all right. Do you get what I’m saying?”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Family

“Even when there were no more options for the body, the heart's wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth, love rises. Besides, the will to fly was in the nature of the soul, so its home had to be up above”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Love, Way, Soul, Nature

“It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

Source: The Lazarus Project

Love

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

World, Change, Chance

“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Thinking, Tree, Memory

“When you're with the person you love, you're home.”

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

Source: The Winter Lodge

Love, Personality

“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”

Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011) Hungarian Swiss writer

Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Fight

“I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Love, Kiss, Time, Night

“So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.”

Kelley Armstrong book Living with the Dead

Source: Living with the Dead

“The god’s expression was calm and content, as if he’d just come home from a lovely evening strolling through the Fields of Punishment, enjoying the screams of the damned.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Love, God

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Cord and Erasmas, Part 6, "Peregrin"
Source: Anathem (2008)
Context: “Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff?”
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
“Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
“That’d be great.”

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.”

“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.”

“So does mental illness.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Singing

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Feeling, Thinking, Time

“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Source: The Magnificent Defeat

Way, Courage, Heart

“I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Life, Bird

“Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life, Sleep, Dance

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Reading

“Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

God, Forgetting

“Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows

Way

“All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Thinking

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Way

“My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!"

"Adrian?"

"What are you doing here?"

"Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home."

"No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Love, Boy, Parting, Cry

“Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, War

“I'm of the glamorous ladies
At whose beckoning history shook.
But you are a man, and see only my pan,
So I stay at home with a book.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Books, History

“Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.”

Joanne Harris book The Lollipop Shoes

Source: The Lollipop Shoes

Help, Parting

“My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

Parent

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

World

“Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

World

“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.”

Sherryl Woods (1944) American writer

Source: An O'Brien Family Christmas

Love, God, Peace, Hope

“It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian

Fear, Change

“Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it," said Tessa. "Won't you miss it here? This place has been your home."
His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver.
"You are home for me now.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Past

“Well, I live a double life. Tonight, I'll escort you to dinner. Then I have to rush home and finish my calculus homework.'
'You're not joking, are you?'
'I never joke about calculus homework.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Life

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

“ Young People and the Church http://books.google.com/books?id=iu4nAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA310&dq=%22There+are+two+beings%22“ (13 October 1904)<br>Variant: If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience. <br class="br">1900s <br class="br">Context: There are two beings who assess character instantly by looking into the eyes,—dogs and children. If a dog not naturally possessed of the devil will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience; and if a little child, from any other reason than mere timidity, looks you in the face, and then draws back and will not come to your knee, go home and look deeper yet into your conscience.

Dogs

“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,
for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.”

Simon Armitage (1963) Poet, playwright, novelist

Source: The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

“And let’s be honest, you weren’t exactly harmed. I even took you home.” “You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead.” “Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most.” I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Dead

“For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.”

Ernest Hemingway book 88 Poems

Source: 88 Poems

Way, Dance, Night

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Women, People, Feeling, Waiting

“And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.”

Ben Sherwood (1964) American author, journalist, and entrepreneur

Thinking

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) African Americans' rights activist

Girl

“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Happiness

“Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused.

“I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined
and six feet under.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Thinking, Heart

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Source: An Essay on Man

Life, Hope, Soul, Spring

“You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?"
"With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Children, Education, Family

“I am this fiery snail crawling home.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

“In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

"Still in Melbourne, January 1987"
Source: Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)
Context: Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

World

“I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: Insecure at Last

Thinking

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