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  1. 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

  2. John le Carré _ The Honourable Schoolboy

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

  3. John Fowles _ The Magus

    A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ Beneath the Wheel

    When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.
    book-quotesoulmaturityyouth

  5. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Fellowship of the Ring

    All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king."
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  6. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance."
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  7. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.
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  8. Charles de Lint _ A Circle of Cats

    On a quiet day, when the wind was still, the creek could be heard all the way up to where the old beech stood. Under its branches, cats would come to dream and be dreamed. Black cats and calicos, white cats and marmalade ones, too. But they hadn't yet gathered on the day the orphan girl fell asleep among its roots, nestling in the weeds and long grass like the gangly, tousle-haired girl she was.Her name was Lillian.
    book-quotedreamscatsroots

  9. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
    book-quotehomebelongingroots

  10. Jhumpa Lahiri _ In Other Words

    Celui qui n'appartient à aucun lieu spécifique ne peut, en réalité, retourner nulle part.
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  11. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
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