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There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood. (Tana French)
I live quietly at home among my family and friends. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience-buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello-become new all over again. View quote
Anthony Doerr
Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.) View quote
William Goldman
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism... View quote
William Peter Blatty
There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home. View quote
Fatema Mernissi
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't ... Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. View quote
Phyllis Diller
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white. View quote
Fran Drescher
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it. View quote
Frederic Martel
Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home. (Helen Fisher)
You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow. View quote
Henning Mankell
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away. View quote
Hugh Jackman
I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean. View quote
Hugh Howey
Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all. View quote
Shannon Hale
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. View quote
Shari Arison
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew." Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn't bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened...the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
Come home with me, Acheron. I'll make it well worth your while. (Artemis) I have a headache. (Acheron) You've had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis) And you've had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, I would date if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. But most are such a waste of time that I'd rather sit at home and watch reruns of Hee Haw. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes ‘‘no mind'' is meditation. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar