Quotes Tagged With :homesickness

he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that....

Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget....

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and....

A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’‘No.’‘It is to be at home everywhere.

Never complete. Never whole.White skin and an African soul.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere....

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.