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“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.”
― Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
― George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith