Home Quotes

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

The moon said to me baby, come home. Come back to the night but I said I belong in the daylight.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.