Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Home is here in London and always has been.

My idea of home is not necessarily a place.

Iowa is always home for me.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

Pakistan is my home; I don't want to feel harassed in my own home.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

A house is not a home.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

It is important for me to feel at home.

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Home is important. Its important to have a home.

Anything that feels familiar and comfortable [is home]. It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados. It's warm, it's beautiful, it's the beach, it's my family, it's the food, it's the music. Everything feels familiar, feels right and feels safe. So, Barbados is home for me.

Home is the place where you feel happy.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.