“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder”

— Jodi Picoult , book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

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Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

“I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.”

Terry Gilliam (1940) American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)
Context: In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America — it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.

“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place — a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Namesake

Variant: Remember it always. Remember that you and I made this journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
Source: The Namesake

“I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

As quoted in The New York Post (26 April 1959)

“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Birches" (1920)
General sources
Source: Swinger of Birches
Context: I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.