Lionel Shriver Quotes

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.

You get away from something long enough, you miss it. You get hungry for it.

I miss Pittsburgh.

So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.

I would always wait to take you home.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.