467 Quotes About Belonging

  • Author Iain Banks
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    I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do.""The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.

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  • Author Lisa O'Donnell
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    He’s the type of person who loves the idea of being an outsider because he thinks by not belonging it makes him superior in some way. What he doesn’t get is that the real outsiders would do anything to be on the inside. A real outsider can’t be seen at all. They’re people who look like they belong when inside they know they don’t. They’re people who would do anything to appear normal, while harboring the secret knowledge that they’re anything but normal.

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  • Author Melina Marchetta
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    Scatter?” Tate said. “Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?”“Because we’ll never know how great this place is until we leave it,” Narnie said.“I miss it more every time I go,” Jude said.“And you’re not even from here,” Fitz said.Jude stared at him. “What?” he asked angrily. “Do you have to be born here? Or do your parents have to be buried here? Or do you have to be related?”(...)“Naw. You just have to belong. Long to be.”“By blood?”“By love,” Narnie said, not looking up.

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  • Author Veronica Roth
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    This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

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  • Author Christina Baker Kline
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    As with Dutchy and Carmine on the train, this little cluster of women has become a kind of family to me. Like an abandoned foal that nestles against cows in the barnyard, maybe I just need to feel the warmth of belonging. And if I'm not going to find that with the Byrnes, I will find it, however partial and illusory, with the women in the sewing room.

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  • Author Roger Housden
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    That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.

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  • Author Dan Brown
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    It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

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