“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
Context: We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…

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American writer 1918–2007

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