{"quotes":[{"text":"He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["belonging","homesickness","identity"],"id":4055,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace.","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["family","homesickness","solace"],"id":10614,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"},{"text":"I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart.","author":"H.V. Morton","tags":["feelings","homesickness"],"id":23275,"author_id":"H.V.+Morton"},{"text":"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["heart","homesickness","sick"],"id":37903,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"...Not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["belonging","contentment","home","homesickness","loneliness","sadness"],"id":38299,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"},{"text":"Love is when you have not been home for three months and call up home and your daughter picks up the phone and says 'Papa, I love you!","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["call","calling-people","daughter","family-love","home","homesickness","love","meaning-of-life-is-each-other","meaning-of-life-is-relationships","meaning-of-life","telephone","telephone-calls"],"id":54631,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["homesickness","nostalgia"],"id":57969,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .","author":"Amy Ballard","tags":["communication","homesickness","maine","new-england","postcards"],"id":73389,"author_id":"Amy+Ballard"},{"text":"My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.","author":"Aglaja Veteranyi","tags":["far-from-home","home","homesickness","sense-memory"],"id":78047,"author_id":"Aglaja+Veteranyi"},{"text":"If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.","author":"Lionel Shriver","tags":["homesickness","longing","travel"],"id":117124,"author_id":"Lionel+Shriver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}