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“To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.”
― Mark Twain

“If you’re not at home in your heart,” she said, “then you’re not at home anywhere.”
― Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds: A Novel