“nirvana, n.: To be exactly who you want yourself to be, joined by the person or people you most want to be with.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“nomadic, adj.: Every time we moved, my parents would promise it would be better, but after awhile, I felt it was all just desert.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…….and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breat…”— Andrea Gibson, wordsfortheyear.com
“Being loved is not the same thing as loving. When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping. It is realizing you have hands. It is reaching for the tightrope when the crowds have all gone home. Do not spend time wondering if you are the type of woman men will hurt.…”— Sarah Kay, huffingtonpost.com
“Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.”— Renee Ahdieh, amazon.com
“It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.”— Renee Ahdieh, amazon.com
“You could never recognize the kindness in that girl, the depth of her needs, how desperately she wanted to belong.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he’d even bothered.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“Perhaps I was never meant to wander on tired feet. Perhaps they ache after long days because the soles bear the weight of a world where they will never belong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.”— Abraham Verghese, amazon.com
“So, here you are too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both.”— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, 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
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these thing…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when w…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com