CURATED COLLECTION

Finding a Sense of Belonging

The hunger to be truly known and accepted somewhere — and what it costs to go without it.

43 quotes found

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We carry our homes within us, a portable landscape of memory and belonging.

—Judith Ortiz CoferWriter

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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At a certain point I lost track of you. You needed me to live somewhere else.

—Agha Shahid AliPoet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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Home is where the heart breaks, again and again, and still we return.

—R. Zamora LinmarkNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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We carried the scent of home in our hair.

—Velma PollardPoet, Novelist & Scholar

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Let me begin again. Let me put down my guns.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Language is the home that cannot be taken from you.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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My mother tongue is the house I carry on my back.

—Meena AlexanderPoet & Memoirist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

—Gabriel García MárquezNovelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Storytelling is how we make sense of our lives, our history, our deep connections.

—Judith Ortiz CoferWriter

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Quiet peace, and a house to call home. What more could one ask?

—Vikram SethNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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Every mouthful of food you eat carries the emotion that was present when it was prepared.

—Laura EsquivelNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, wherever that may be.

—Bienvenido SantosNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Southeast Asia

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Women are extraordinary because we carry whole worlds inside us without breaking.

—Ángeles MastrettaNovelist & Journalist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We believe the one we love cannot be truly lost to us.

—Yaa GyasiNovelist

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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To be a Bengali is to be nostalgic for something you've never known.

—Jhumpa LahiriAuthor

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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That's the thing about books: they let you travel without moving your feet.

—Jhumpa LahiriAuthor

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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To be loved is to be seen.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The earth is my mother; she does not ask what I have done.

—Namdeo Dhondo MahanorPoet

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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A family is a strange beast. It loves you and destroys you simultaneously.

—Vikram SethNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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The strength of a relationship lies not in its length but in its depth.

—PremchandWriter

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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