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  1. James Baldwin _ Giovanni’s Room

    Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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  2. Christopher Isherwood _ A Single Man

    The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.
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  3. Kathy Acker _ In Memoriam to Identity

    I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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  5. Mercedes Lackey _ One Good Knight

    She felt him shifting himself under her and around her, rearranging himself, until she was being held in a real embrace. She opened blurring eyes to find that he had tucked her between his forelegs with his neck curled around her."Shhh-" he said, as she closed her eyes and threw her arms around his warm, soft, slippery neck. "I know, I know. It's all horrible. Just go ahead and cry, Andie. Go ahead and let it out. I think you've been holding it in too long."She couldn't have stopped the flood now if she'd wanted to, and she really didn't want to. He was right. She'd been holding it in too long. She sobbed against his neck, eyes streaming and burning, throat raw and sore, chest aching. She babbled between the sobs, nothing really coherent, but just-She'd wanted a mother. She'd wanted to make Cassiopeia proud of her so that she'd 'be' that mother. Show her that even her if her daughter wasn't like 'her,' she was still worth something. Was useful. Could stand at the Queen's side and-That was all she wanted.And her mother found her so unworthy that Cassiopeia threw her away to feed a monster, like so much offal."Oh, Andie," Peri sighed in her ear. "Oh, my poor girl. It's Cassiopeia that's unworthy of 'you.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    ... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
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  7. Ian Fleming _ Live and Let Die

    You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
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  8. E.M. Forster _ Maurice

    Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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  9. Timothy B. Tyson _ Blood Done Sign My Name: A

    Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.
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  10. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
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  11. Maya Angelou _ All God's Children Need

    The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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  12. James Patterson _ Saving the World and Other

    Oh, look, the lights are so pretty," I said dreamily, having just noticedthem.I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow andblue. I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and seewhat's going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off ahot car hood."Fang?""Yeah. I'm here."I struggled to focus on him. "I'm so glad you're here.""Yeah, I got that.""I don't know what I'd do without you." I peered up at him, trying to seepast the too-bright lights."You'd be fine," he muttered."No," I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. "I would be totallyunfine. Totally." It seemed very urgent that he understand this.Again I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that wasabout. Was Ella's mom going to start this procedure any time soon?"It's okay. Just relax." He sounded stiff and nervous. "Just...relax. Don'ttry to talk.""I don't want my chip anymore," I explained groggily, then frowned."Actually, I never wanted that chip.""Okay," said Fang. "We're taking it out.""I just want you to hold my hand.""I am holding your hand.""Oh. I knew that." I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware ofanything, but feeling Fang's hand still in mine."Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?" I roused myself to ask, every word aneffort."Um, no," said Ella's voice, somewhere behind my head."I think I would like a La-Z-Boy," I mused, letting my eyes drift shutagain. "Fang, don't go anywhere.""I won't. I'm here.""Okay. I need you here. Don't leave me.""I won't.""Fang, Fang, Fang," I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. "I love you. Ilove you sooo much." I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but Icouldn't move them."Oh, jeez," Fang said, sounding strangled.
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