Leave Home Quotes

“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.”
― Núria Añó

“The world is divided between those who stay and those who leave.”
― Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine

“Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.”
― Núria Añó

“I let the front door slam shut behind me and the fly screen rattle. It was as if each door was kicking me out of the old life I'd lived in that house. I was being thrown out into the world, new. The broken, leaning gate creaked open, let me out, and I gently placed it shut. I was gone, and from down the street, maybe fifty yards away, I looked back for a second at the house where I lived. It wasn't the same any more. It never would be. I kept walking.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“He was a gay man who had to leave home to find himself, not a gay man who had found himself within his own home.”
― Jameson Currier, The Third Buddha

“All the things you do when you're twenty years old. The desire for constant movement will come after, the impossibility of staying in one place, the hatred of the roots that hold you there, 'Doesn't matter where you go, just change the scenery', says the lyric to a song.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“Partire e fermarsi sono le due cose più difficili”
― Niall Williams, History of the Rain

“Suppose none of us ever left — how would we ever create new ways if we're held back in the old?"

Mother balked. "And what do you think happens to us who never leaves home, Sylvie — you think we grows stagnant like bog water? Sir, the things she says."

"I didn't mean it like that —"

"Praise the lord, I hope not, for there's not a minute in a day when the water's not changing its colour or the wind don't touch me differently. You don't have to go off to find newness, if that's what you're saying. Newness grows out of every day — no matter where you're standing, for them with eyes to see it.”
― Donna Morrissey, What They Wanted