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“”Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.”
(…) “You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don’t go there?”
He laughed. “Well isn’t it true? You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you can never go back.””

“”Maybe you’ll be lonely again,” she said, finally. “I guess I won’t mind if you come looking for me.” She wrote the strangest smile I had ever seen. It was pained and vindictive and humiliated, but she inexpertly smeared across a grimace a bright, girlish gaiety - as rigid as the skeleton beneath her flabby body. It fate ever allowed Sue to reach me, she would kill me with just that smile.”