Sarah Dessen Quotes

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

I feel at home in Madrid. I have always felt important, wanted, and trusted by everyone here.

Everyone's always shocked that I'm still based in Yorkshire, but going home there is my sanctuary. Home is where the heart is, and my mother, sister and brother are there, and my partner.

I feel like wherever I go, I will make it home.

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

Home. It's such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad's house, then my uncle's farm. Mostly it's meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it's you. It's your letters, your words. They're the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.