62 Quotes About Homecoming
- Author Matthew J. Hefti
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The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
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- Author Ellis Peters
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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?""Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
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- Author Cindy Ross
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Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
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- Author Tom Perrotta
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They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me.
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- Author David Eddings
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You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.
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- Author Hlovate
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As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.
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- Author Sandra Cisnerossneros
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When you leave you must remember to come back for the others. A circle, understand? You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.
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- Author Laura Oliva
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How long since he'd been back home? Ten years? Fifteen? He'd stopped keeping track around the time he'd finally stopped looking over his shoulder. At the time, leaving had seemed too good to be true. He'd spent months feeling like he was half a step ahead of some nameless specter; like if he let his guard down, even for a second, whatever it was would drag him right back where he'd come from.
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