“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
― The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
“When we seek revenge, even non-violent revenge, we are revolving, not evolving.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.”
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“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
― Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
― Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
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