“ Sometimes I can’t tell if you hate this place or love it.”“I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don’t like what it is.” She hugs her knees close to her chest. “The way you feel about the place… Robert Jackson Bennett
“ ....he will always live in a place he is not from. For a long time he thought that habit would counter this fact and custom would disguise it. He thought, in the beginning, that such things would not… Stephanie Bishop
“ Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place even away from what you would normally call home. Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away. Aglaja Veteranyi
“ He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not… Salman Rushdie
“ ...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had. Susan Ornbratt
“ Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones. Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that? Emery Lord
“ Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you. Ovid
“ I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that q… Alan Bradley
“ I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgo… H.V. Morton
“ For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands towards these strange doors to these foreign gates. Elias Lönnrot
“ Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again. Rhian J. Martin
“ Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life. Becky Chambers
