Belong Quotes

“Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

“You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“When I’m with you, even my past seems like a bad dream,” he says. “I’ve sat on this hill a hundred times, and all I used to see were lights that represented places where I wasn’t wanted, where I never belonged. Now, when you aren’t with me, I look east and know one of those lights represents you, and I don’t feel alone anymore.”
― Katie McGarry, Crash into You

“Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?”
― Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn

“She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
― Queen Elizabeth I, The letters of Queen Elizabeth I;

“Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.”
― Robert Reed, Marrow

“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.”
― Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There

“I don't belong to you ... You thought if I married you that I would, but I don't. I don't belong to any man ... I only belong to myself. But belonging to myself doesn't mean I don't love you or that I don't want to stand beside you.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“If you’re not careful, you’ll confuse comfort for belonging. There are some places and situations you get used to, but it doesn’t mean you belong there. ”
― Steve Maraboli

“It hardly matters if you’ve known someone a lifetime or a minute. Our wolves always know who they belong to.”
― Dannika Dark, The Vow

“She didn't belong here. She didn't belong anywhere.”
― Alyssa Moon, Delphine and the Silver Needle

“Live always with the wind against your cheeks and buds of gorse tucked into your hair. Live always, and never forget where you belong.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“I don't know what it is, but I hope that it's not mine.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to
anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence;
the ego only there to give significance”
― Ann Quin, Berg

“You are right,maybe I really don't belong or fit in anywhere,but at least here I feel a little wanted,so I'm gonna stay.”
― Glitch Ntukza V.L

“Take away everything from a man and it leaves just his identity… the place where he belongs. And man is very possessive about this identity.”
― Rishabh Dubey, The Mangoman

“The stuff of imagination is not simply to let one’s mind run wild with things grand, magical and altogether wonderful. Rather, the stuff of imagination is recognizing the responsibility that one has to seize those things with all of one’s might and to wrestle them back into this world. And we must do that not only because this is where they belong, but more importantly, this is where they are needed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sheila realized that pressuring the hotel managers would probably not work, so she changed her ideas about the target: “We need to put the fight where it belongs.” The team told the hotel managers that they “would go to the owners and make the case.” This did the trick, and the managers promised to provide secondary support.”
― Allan R. Cohen, Influence Without Authority

“I didn’t want to tell you,
That what you want doesn’t want you,
But if it’s meant to be yours,
It’d find you, it’d hold you,
It would call you home.”
― Jenim Dibie

“The Thirty Meter Telescope does not belong atop a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
― Steven Magee

“We each belong.
But where?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I quickly shifted my gaze to the wallpaper, where it skimmed across the bright flowers and mischievous rabbits and landed on one of the bees in the print. I swear I saw its wings flutter. I reached out to touch it only to realize the bee was warm under my fingertip.
"Do you like the wallpaper?" Cora Bee asked. "Some people think it's too busy, too colorful, too much."
I turned to face Cora Bee. "It's not any of that. It's perfect."
Though her eyes were tired, haunted, she smiled. "I think you'll fit in around here just fine, Emme."
And I smiled, too, because I knew she wasn't lying.”
― Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

“Honest people do not belong in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Do not wish to belong but be.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thing about this is not the dinner and it's not the fashion show, it's that I know that you see me. You see what I've tried to do all of these years.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register