I'm Still Searching For A Place To Call Home

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”

— Pierce Brown, amazon.com

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“You tend to go back to who feels like home.”

— Ten Word Story, facebook.com

“I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.”

— Ellen Page, Juno, amazon.com

“So will you lay your arms down? Yes, I will call this home.”

— Dave Matthews Band, youtube.com

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”

— Eric Roth, amazon.com

“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”

— Naguib Mahfouz, pinterest.com

“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

“My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.”

— Aglaja Veteranyi, amazon.com

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”

— Josh Gates, amazon.com

“There is little to the concept of ‘belonging’ other than being possessed by your own haunting need to be completed. It is not being homeless but being a wanderer not searching for a home that sets you free.”

— Julia Laksa, thoughtcatalog.com

“She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.”

— Beatrice Sparks, amazon.com

“Don't think. It complicates things. just feel, and if it feels like home then follow its path.”

— R.M Drake, amazon.com

“Love will find a way, anywhere we go. We're home if we are there together.”

— Kiara, Neve Campbell, amazon.com

“So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, amazon.com

“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

“Sadness is knowing I cannot stay here forever, no house to be found inside of love. It is nothing but open space, endless sky, shards of sun like rain.”

— Stephanie Barelman, hellopoetry.com

“The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees i…”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”

— Michiko Kakutani, nytimes.com

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”

— Miriam Adeney, goodreads.com

“You can build a house out of anything. Make it as strong as you want. But a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with. And people can be broken, sure, but any surgeon knows, what's broken can be mended. What's hurt can be healed. That no matter how dark it…”

— Meredith Grey, amazon.com

“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”

— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com