37 Quotes About Leaving-home

I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut.

She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations.

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

Philippa Mitchell was eighteen years old when she left England. She left behind her bedroom, that cocoon of misery in which she’d imprisoned herself; her parents, with their forced, hollow cheerfulness; and the pieces of her heart, smashed to smithereens two years ago with a phone call that came in the middle of the night.

The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.

Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option.

To leave home. It’s gotta be worth leaving.

I regarded home as a place I left behind in order to come back to it afterward.

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.