{"quotes":[{"text":"To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["coming-home","hope","kiss","love"],"id":27824,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.","author":"lauren klarfeld","tags":["coming-home","home","travel","travel","travelling","travelling-alone"],"id":29159,"author_id":"lauren+klarfeld"},{"text":"Often in the morning he drove a long hour or more to the markets in the city, there to behold what would determine the day’s special. With the crates of fresh selesctions snuggled into his station wagon, his thoughts on the ride back confronted the culinary equivalent of the writer’s blank page. Sometimes his head swirled with exciting ideas; other mornings he was in a panic upon returning with the same old eggplant and squash and zucchini and nothing but the dullness of the word ratatouille standing by to mock him.","author":"Nancy Zafris","tags":["anxiety","coming-home","ego","self-esteem"],"id":41741,"author_id":"Nancy+Zafris"},{"text":"I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers. Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.I want to be someone you can’t live without.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["afternoon","beautiful","believe","blame","books","can-t-sleep","clean","close-to-the-sun","clumsy","coffee","coming-home","creative-writing","cut-grass","drawers","dream","drinking","drunk","far-away","glass","grass","heart","home","icarus","laundry","light-lighter","love","mess","mind","monday","phone","poem","poetry","poets","prose","prose-poetry","reading","seneca","shakespeare","sleeping","sun","today","warm","world","writers","writing","wrong"],"id":89019,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.","author":"Laura Marney","tags":["choice","coming-home","happiness","home"],"id":107238,"author_id":"Laura+Marney"},{"text":"Though a lifetime of listening to the music of the world has passed, even now the tone of the rain on the roof of my home is the sweetest sound I have ever heard.","author":"Kensi Brianne Smith","tags":["coming-home","home","journey","journey-in-life","music","rain"],"id":122994,"author_id":"Kensi+Brianne+Smith"},{"text":"It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["coming-home","home","inspiration","prodigal-son","the-coloured-land"],"id":174886,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined).","author":"Kristina Riggle","tags":["coming-home","daughters","denial","love","motherhood","mothers","parenting"],"id":211382,"author_id":"Kristina+Riggle"},{"text":"I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.","author":"Susan Donovan","tags":["beautiful","coming-home","dreams","strong-women"],"id":238605,"author_id":"Susan+Donovan"},{"text":"Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["coming-home","derry","home","horror"],"id":248600,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}