Quote by Edna O'Brien

“So why come back home when everything was going for me? Simple. I wanted to make it in my own country.”

— Lisa Goldin

“It was like coming home after you'd been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just…

— Jenny Han

“He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.”

— Fannie Flagg

“Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left…

— Barack Obama

“am incredibly thankful to call America home. I have been privileged to travel the world and visit all of its major societies, but to…

— Ben Carson

“My husband meant for us to live here.”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.”

— Jonathan Lethem

“I nodded. It was pretty simple. Eight years now and we knew the routine. We do our job. Only here, our job had been…

— L.T. Ryan

“After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.”

— Michael Zadoorian

“And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that…

— Phil Klay

“Of course, I knew there were plenty of good reasons to stay. But I’d spent my entire life staying. I wanted to be the…

— Kim Dinan

“Would he really want us here...forever? Because forever was what I was thinking when I agreed to move. I never would have done it,…

— Jodi LaPalm