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One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.


Margaret Mead

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MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
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THORNTON WILDER When you hide something from someone and you hide it where that one you are hiding it from is hiding...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of ou...
CHRIS PRENTISS The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
GEORGE MACDONALD Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w...
STEPHEN KING When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who reall...
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
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HARRY YOU Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
DALAI LAMA dont be too confident when someone tells you they love you, the real question is UNTIL WHEN? becoz j...
NIESA AMOR IBARRA You are a delicate as a flower, One little thing can break you, so dont let anything come in the way...
DANIELLE D Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
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JAVY LOPEZ How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
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KIMBERLY SHILENJE Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, a...
LEMONY SNICKET No matter where you go searching for something, you will come back and find it at home.
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SHARON SALZBERG You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each nig...
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JOHN O'DONOHUE Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
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BANKSY Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y...
TIM O'BRIEN Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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LANA WACHOWSKI Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.
DAWN ATKINS When you know who you are, and live it, you are at home in the world.
ARDEN MAHLBERG How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I wonder, where are you? ... Beyond loyalty to the process of law, how do you view this law when it ...
DICK DURBIN When you try to be more like someone else, the world gets less of what it needs... you.
ANDREW KASZOWSKI I was very interested in seeing that change take place. Over the last 30-odd years that we've had Mo...
PAT BOWLEN You need to go home and get some rest and let me stay through the night, ... This could go on throug...
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FELIX KRAMER Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,
JUDY BLUME Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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JIMMY CHIN Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.
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“Already crazy about you, Sa...
RICHELLE MEAD Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.”

I looked down to where, in a moment of despe...
RICHELLE MEAD We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
MATT MEAD Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.'<...
RICHELLE MEAD Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is some...
RICHELLE MEAD So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous...
RICHELLE MEAD My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my ...
RICHELLE MEAD I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.

Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I...
RICHELLE MEAD I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of m...
RICHELLE MEAD Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
RICHELLE MEAD Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it com...
RICHELLE MEAD Really, Sage? A date?”
I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”
“A real date. Not, like, d...
RICHELLE MEAD You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic lo...
RICHELLE MEAD I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.
RICHELLE MEAD I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when ...
RICHELLE MEAD Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my ...
RICHELLE MEAD How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.
RICHELLE MEAD I don't balance you like you need."
"What the hell does that mean?" he exclaimed.
My heart...
RICHELLE MEAD Anytime you're saying that a person will be thinking one way or another or biased one way or ano...
MATT MEAD I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actua...
RICHELLE MEAD The center will hold.”

“How do you know?”

“Because we are the...
RICHELLE MEAD My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?"

That uncomfortable feeling was s...
RICHELLE MEAD Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You...
RICHELLE MEAD You've always been my equal, Roza.
RICHELLE MEAD We can't..." he told me.
"I know," I agreed.

Then his mouth was on mine again, and t...
RICHELLE MEAD You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.
RICHELLE MEAD