How could a person not belong in the only place she ever…

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”

— Maya Angelou

“The only place you belong is the place you can never go back to.”

— Patrick Ness

“And God was here anyway, before the missionaries came. We called him by a different name, then, and he did not live over at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.

— Dillian Whyte

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water…

— David Thibodeau

“No longer did I imagine that any place we lived would become permanent. The only question was how long we'd stay.”

— Therese Anne Fowler

I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for…

— Christian Bale

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

— Orson Scott Card

“The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life…

— James Galvin

“It was just the place I’d always lived, kind of boring, kind of confining. But mine, with all my history, good and bad, wrapped…

— Anonymous

Make the world a better place because you have lived in it.

— Edgar Cayce

“my mother was my first country the first place i ever lived”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures”

— Carol Shields

“The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping places in…

— Paul Auster

I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

— Essie Davis