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• a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own.

  Hope Edelman

  Daughter, Mother, Self Esteem

  Hope Edelman (1994). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss”, Delta

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• I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Rereading, Nervous

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• But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Evil, Sorrow, Dawn

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe:”, p.99, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

  Ned Vizzini

  Basketball, Running, Real

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• In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.

  Ari Berk

  Mean, House, Waiting

  Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

  Daniel Handler

  Hug, Body, Want

  Daniel Handler (2009). “The Basic Eight: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Woods, Moments, Lost

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• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

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• We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

  Walt Disney

  Kissing, Hades

  "Fictional character: Hades". "Hercules", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Travel, Men, Manhattan

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• He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Brother, Real

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• A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.

  Melina Marchetta

  Long, Jellicoe Road

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• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Wine, Sleep

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, Humanity, Earth

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• That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

  Deborah Harkness

  Stars, Sunset, Dark

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin

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• Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

  John Green

  Lonely, Children, Swings

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Like Her, Joey

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• As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Grateful, Heart, Sunshine

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.66, Thomas Nelson

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• Didn't anyone tell you that size doesn't matter?" "Yes, but I told him to put his pants back on and go home.

  Christine Warren

  Matter, Pants, Size

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• (Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.

  Taylor Swift

  Pennsylvania, Crowds, Landscape

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• Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

  Rick Riordan

  Canada, Next, Welcome

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• Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

  John Green

  Real, Kissing, Thinking

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Thinking, Expression

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• Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ocean, Needs, Bathroom

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