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  1. Ann-Marie MacDonald _ Fall on Your Knees

    I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight up, not flat out. They say that the body of water stretching away to the east of Manhattan is the ocean but it isn't. Not my ocean, anyway. It's weird because back home I just took it for granted, my grey-green sea. Now I have a granite ocean. It gives me the same happy-sad feeling I need sometimes. When I look straight up at the buildings I can feel alone in a good way. Not in that horrible way of no one knows me.
    book-quotehappinesscityhome

  2. Bill Watterson _ There's Treasure Everywhere

    On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.
    book-quotebookshomeoath

  3. Alain de Botton _ The Architecture of Happiness

    We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need - but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need - within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.
    book-quoteidentityhome

  4. Ellis Peters _ A Rare Benedictine

    If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?""Do I know? {...} The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
    book-quotehomebelongingstillness

  5. Homer _ The Odyssey

    There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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  6. Lorrie Moore _ Like Life

    But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.
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  7. Irvin D. Yalom _ The Spinoza Problem

    Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti.
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  8. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.
    book-quotehomeself-love

  9. Trish Deseine _ Home

    It has taken almost half my life away from Ireland for me to truly feel what home really is, and it is not what I was expecting. In the end it was not a place, or a past, or any sort of single, dazzling epiphany. It was all the little things. Cold butter spread thick on sweet wheaten bread or hot, subsiding potatoes; the scent of wet, black soil; a bushy spine of grass on a one-track road; wife iron gates leading to high beech corridors; the chalky smell of a cow's wet muzzle, and, most of all, in Seamus Heaney's words, the sound of rivers in the trees.
    book-quoteidentityhomeireland

  10. Trish Deseine _ Home

    It has taken almost half my life away from Ireland for me to truly feel what home really is, and it is not what I was expecting. In the end it was not a place, or a past, or any sort of single, dazzling epiphany. It was all the little things. Cold butter spread thick on sweet wheaten bread or hot, subsiding potatoes; the scent of wet, black soil; a bushy spine of grass on a one-track road; wide iron gates leading to high beech corridors; the chalky smell of a cow's wet muzzle, and, most of all, in Seamus Heaney's words, the sound of rivers in the trees.
    book-quoteidentityhomeireland

  11. John le Carré _ The Honourable Schoolboy

    Home's where you go when you run out of homes."
    book-quotehomebelongingroots

  12. Beth Revis _ Shades of Earth

    And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
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