10 Quotes Tagged: homesickness

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

"I used to think, in Belaire, that maybe you had gone to live with the List, and it hadn't suited you, and that one spring they'd bring you home dead. From homesickness. I saw how you would look, pale and sad."

"I did die," she said. "It was easy."

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

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

let me belong again to that faraway place I left so long ago, from which I am alienated, and which has forgotten me, in which I am an alien now even though it was the place where I began, let me belong again, walk those streets knowing they are mine, knowing that my story is a part of those streets, even though it isn't, it hasn't been for most of a lifetime, let it be so, let it be so

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

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

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

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.