Home Quotes - Page 17

• Home is the place where they have to take you in

  Diana Gabaldon

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• After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Body, Behind You

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

  Kate Forsyth

  Night, Long, Locks

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• Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Writing, Fire

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.116, Booklassic

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• Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

  Tom Holt

  One Day, Evening, Boxes

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• In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses. At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home. And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Mom, Morning

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• A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children: “I’m not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.

  S.J. Watson

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

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• She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

  Kiera Cass

  Running, Lines, Staying

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks

  Kim Harrison

  Children, Real, Needs

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• In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Blow, Hands

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• I’d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” seemed too close to home at the mo-ment. “Culture Club?” Now his mouth curled downward. “And you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Song, Hurt, Mistake

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• You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

  Terry Pratchett

  Back Home, Havens

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.143, Oberon Books

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• Darling," he said distractedly,"about the moon..." "Yes?" "I don't think it matters whether you want it or not." "What are you talking about?" "The moon. I think it's yours." Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. "Fine. i'm glad to have it." "But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody. But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Moon, Thinking

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• What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

  Orson Scott Card

  Soldier, Want, Ends

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.333, Macmillan

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• Despite the fact that she was essentially comatose, she somehow made his whole house feel different just by being there. Before it had been just a house—a very impressive house no doubt, but a house nonetheless. But for some reason, with Taylor there it felt more like a home.

  Julie James

  House, Doubt, Different

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.221, Penguin

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• I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Missing, Feelings

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

  George MacDonald

  Fall, Intellectual, Wonder

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13217, Delphi Classics

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• exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

  David Levithan

  Believe, Parent, Secret

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• Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

  Augusten Burroughs

  Creativity, Light, Perfection

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• And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Air

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• The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, House

  John Steinbeck (1995). “To a God Unknown”, p.70, Penguin

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Thinking, Eggs

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• This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Mom, Morning, School

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• I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

  Daniel Handler

  Night, My Boyfriend, Mouths

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.156, Egmont UK

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