We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
Aleksandar HemonRead
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Home is a place where your absence is felt by others, indicating love and connection.
This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional bonds and connections in defining a home. It suggests that true home is not merely a physical space, but rather a place filled with relationships where you are missed and valued by those around you, highlighting the significance of being noticed and cared for in one's life.
Themes
HomeRelationshipsCareConnectionAbsence
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech at a family gathering, you might use this quote to highlight the importance of family bonds.
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All quotes βI have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability β the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
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I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
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