Belonging Quote by Anita Rau Badami

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“She had seen this before. She knew that you could put it all in a little box and close it up later, that you could…

— Karin Slaughter

“But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site.…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

“That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have…

— Kimberly Novosel

“The day that I left my home, I had prayed that my children would forget me. I wanted to spare them the pain of…

— Karen Maitland

“The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already in the…

— James Baldwin

“And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each…

— Yukako Kabei

“Death has me in his bed and I would not be content without those words said”

— Rose D. Cassidy

“And yet, death was still there, everywhere. We had adopted her. She lived in us and we in her. She’d emerge from our red…

— Mahi Binebine

“Every time I looked toward a horizon of wondered if I should just walk and walk and never look back, I'd hear the promise…

— Sarah J. Maas

“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him.…

— James Baldwin

“But after he tells you how they died, I want you to remember how they lived(...)”

— Elizabeth Fama