Quote by Stephanie Perkins

“Or maybe, it's just gone. Sometimes things disappear and there's no getting them back. That's just how it is.”

— Julie Otsuka

“I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”

— Jon Krakauer

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I…

— Anonymous

“Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.”

— Lauren Oliver

“This life was fleeting, and I was still searching for the way I wanted to spend it that would make me happy, full, okay…

— Sarah Dessen

“I’d wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will.”

— Margaret Atwood

“As strange as my life gets, it's just my life. I'm still in it. Whatever happens, I'm going to have to find a way…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?”

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

“Just remember that certain things you see, you can't take them back. And no amount of wishing will make them go away.”

— Jeyn Roberts

“Sometimes what wishes do...especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you.”

— Susan Patron

“I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd…

— Jessica Warman