“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

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