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• Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

  Patricia Briggs

  Notebook, War, Play

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1106, Penguin

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• What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Loss, Men, Yawning

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• When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

  Candace Bushnell

  Want, Littles, Easier

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• [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.

  Kim Harrison

  Encouragement, Thinking, Phones

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• Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

  Stephen King

  Hunting, Night, Snacks

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

  Robert Fulghum

  Memories, Self, Risk

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• All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

  Scott Spencer

  Real, Visitors, Wanted

  Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• [A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

  O. Henry

  Baseball, Running, Moving

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.769, 谷月社

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• The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

  Isaac Marion

  Sports, Party, Events

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

  Robert E. Lee

  Boys, Helping, States

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• Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

  Jim Butcher

  Real, College, Men

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• [...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

  Marie Lu

  Cheer, June, Names

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• Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Thinking, Waiting

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?

  Andrea Gibson

  Song, Cutting, Dark

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• What’s that?” she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose. “Oh, that? That’s just Pillover.” “And what’s a pillover, when it’s at home?” “My little brother.” “Ah, I commiserate. I have several of my own. Dashed inconvenient, brothers.

  Gail Carriger

  Girl, Brother, Noses

  Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Bed, Mutts

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

  Eric Weiner

  Simple, Want, Dies

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• I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

  Carson McCullers

  Horror

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Knowing, Important

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• Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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• Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—

  Isaac Marion

  Remember You, Remembers You, Bye

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

  Robert Creeley

  Love, Voice, Mind

  Robert Creeley (2006). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005”, p.495, Univ of California Press

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  House, World, Safe

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re joining us for dinner, I hope?” asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. “I guess?” I said. “I have to be home by ten. Also I don’t, um, eat meat?” “No problem. We’ll vegetarianize some,” she said. “Animals are just too cute?” Gus asked. “I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for,” I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself.

  John Green

  Cute, Mom, Animal

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

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• Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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