Salman Rushdie Quote

Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the phone and says "Papa, I love you!

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home.

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

In a seedy cinema on ru du Temple, watching Disney's Peter Pan with my son, I found that although we were all gazing at the same screen in the flickering dark, I was seeing a different film to the res...

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

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

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls f...

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it wi...