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• Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Guy, Wow, Fixation

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• Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Appreciation, War, Book

  Laura Hillenbrand (2014). “Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive”, p.299, Delacorte Press

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• She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

  Candace Bushnell

  Lonely, Party, Tired

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• Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Heart, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Thinking, Long

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• In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Waiting, Cold

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Literature

  "Circling: 1978-1987". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Conversations with Atoms", Chapter: "Conversation of Atoms", p. 31), May 21, 2012.

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• We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Tired, Conquer, Far Away

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• Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

  Jodi Picoult

  People

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• I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

  John Green

  Dad, Feelings, Black

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• Mummy’s coming home late tonight. It’ll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Drunk, Guy, Watches

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• We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Land, Trying

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Anna, Dear

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

  David Benioff

  Past, Eggs, Voice

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• Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Wings, Suffering, Frozen

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

  Janet Fitch

  Daughter, Mother, Mother Daughter

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girlfriend, Regret, Lying

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• Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything".

  Kiersten White

  Fall, Fire, Effort

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• But don’t let them talk you into anything you don’t feel comfortable with.” “They’re my friends.” “So what?” He shrugged. “If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?” “Why would they walk off a cliff?” I asked in alarm. “Is someone having problems at home?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Alarms, Cliffs, Problem

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.15, Macmillan

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• nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know.

  Charles Yu

  Self, Two, Missing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.47, Vintage

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• If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.

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  Sherry Argov

  Nice, Men, Polite

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.

  Steve Harvey

  Sports, Mean, Men

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• So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?” “Yeah,” I said. “Sucks,” he said. “I’m a lot better now,” I said. “I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus.” “I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.

  John Green

  Gus, Amsterdam, Tomorrow

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.78, Penguin

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• Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Water, Wish

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