Jon Eric Marababol

I'm Still Searching For A Place To Call Home

"Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark." - Pierce Brown
Marisa Donnelly
February 1, 2017
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
— Naguib Mahfouz, No Title
Tagged: Home, Wanderlust, travel
“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Tagged: The Journey Is The Destination, Forever Fighting, Life, Struggle, It Never Ends
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
Tagged: Home, travel, Adventure, Going Home, Homecoming, Belonging
“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
— Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
Tagged: travel, Adventure, Home, Coming Home
“Sadness is knowing I cannot stay here forever, 
 no house to be found inside of love. 
It is nothing but open space, 
endless sky, 
shards of sun like rain.”
— Stephanie Barelman, Sunstruck
Tagged: Love, Safety, Home, Staying In Love
“She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.”
— Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
Tagged: Running Away, heart, Home
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Tagged: moving, Home, Happiness
“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.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Home, Love, Family, Friends, Relationships, Quality Time
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Leaving, Leaving Home, Moving On, Saying Goodbye, My Favorites
“My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.”
— Aglaja Veteranyi, Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta
Tagged: Home, Homesickness, travel, Pain, Loneliness, Architecture Of Happiness
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
— Miriam Adeney, Kingdom Without Borders
Tagged: Architecture Of Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, Love, travel, Homesickness
“There is little to the concept of ‘belonging’ other than being possessed by your own haunting need to be completed. It is not being homeless but being a wanderer not searching for a home that sets you free.”
— Julia Laksa, I Lost Myself In My Passions, And We Lost Touch
Tagged: Wanting To Be Completed, Wanting To Belong, Belonging, Wanderer, Wanderlust, My Favorites, Searching For Home, Finding Home, Home
“Don't think. It complicates things. just feel, and if it feels like home then follow its path. ”
— R.M Drake, Black Butterfly
Tagged: Relationships, Home, Complicated, R.M Drake
“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”
— Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
Tagged: Home, childhood home, Personality, reverting
“You can build a house out of anything. Make it as strong as you want. But a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with. And people can be broken, sure, but any surgeon knows, what's broken can be mended. What's hurt can be healed. That no matter how dark it gets the sun's going to rise again.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“You tend to go back to who feels like home.”
— Ten Word Story, Ten Word Story
Tagged: Home, Love, Relationships, Ten Word Story
“The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Flying, Home, Memories
“Love will find a way, anywhere we go. We're home if we are there together.”
— Neve Campbell, The Lion King 2 - Simba's Pride
Tagged: Disney, Love, Home, Together
“I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.”
— Juno, Juno
Tagged: Home, different
“So will you lay your arms down? Yes, I will call this home.”
— Dave Matthews Band, Don't Drink The Water
Tagged: Home, Love, Lyrics
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
— Eric Roth, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button(Screenplay)
Tagged: Home, Change, Same
“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant.”
— Stephen King, The Body
Tagged: Homesick, sickness, Home
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
— Michiko Kakutani, Joan Didion: Staking Out California
Tagged: Place, Belonging, Change, Identity, Staying, Leaving, Home, Traveling
“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
Tagged: Foreign, travel, Home, Fitting In, Finding Your Place, Belonging