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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Wind's Twelve Quarters

    This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the table where he has eaten, the branches outside the window of the room where he has slept. Only in dreams do any but the great Mages realize this magic of going home.
    book-quoteinspirationalhome

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Dispossessed

    You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
    book-quotehome

  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Voices

    I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
    book-quotestorieshomeglory

  4. Louisa Thomsen Brits _ The Book of Hygge: The Danish

    Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore
    book-quotehistoryfamilymemory

  5. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.
    book-quotehomeprofessionalism

  6. Jonathan Franzen _ The Discomfort Zone: A

    What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
    book-quotehome

  7. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.
    book-quotereligionidentitynationality

  8. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    But {Coca-Cola} was also genuinely welcomed by the servicemen in far-flung military bases: Coca-Cola reminded them of home and helped to maintain morale.
    book-quotehomemilitarymorale

  9. Bill Bryson _ Neither Here nor There:

    I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.
    book-quotehometourism

  10. Nicholas Sparks Micah Sparks _ Three Weeks With My Brother

    Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever said that life was fair."
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  11. Nicholas Sparks _ The Longest Ride

    God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.
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  12. Nicholas Sparks _ The Last Song

    I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.
    book-quotelifehomenicholas-sparks
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