Home

"Home is not where you were born.
Home is where all your attempts to escape cease."

~ Omar Taher, writer

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in."

~ Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

“Winter is the time for comfort,
for good food and warmth,
for the touch of a friendly hand
and for a talk beside the fire:
it is the time for home.”

~ Edith Sitwell

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,  Anne of Avonlea

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”

~ Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

~ Homer, The Odyssey

“What is home? My favorite definition is 'a safe place,' a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.”

~ Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”

~ Pierce Brown, Golden Son