Homebound Quotes

“Do not let fear keep you from showing up where you are meant to be”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“There was something inside her she could not quite grasp. Something to do with home, with belonging, with where she came from, and where she had chosen to go. Who she wanted beside her, wherever she went. With the idea that all those things began in a story, were sustained by the tellings, by the imagining. That to live was to imagine, to fabricate, to blend the edges of what's real.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“How many are the ways we have, to pass down the learning of our lives. How many are the ways we have, to return to one another, hey.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“That to live was to imagine, to fabricate, to blend the edges of what’s real.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“The words of Maimonides and the sages were a rope that kept them safely tethered to history, the way Shabbat kept them tethered to each other, and themselves. It seemed, to us, an artificial inflation—what balm could these voices from the past offer?”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“Do not let fear keep you from showing up where you are meant to be.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“An earthquake is a danger only for those who cannot move with the world around them.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“Good games let you do something meaningful inside the game world, change something, and in the changing, the player is also transformed somehow. Comes out different than they were when they pressed start.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“This is what happens when you teach people to be believers, not questioners.” You’re right, in that the systems make it easier to follow rather than speak out, and if one has always been a follower, why not follow along with these shiny promises?”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“I couldn’t have managed it alone,” Yesiko said.
“No,” Shula replied. She pulled a bowl of challah dough from the cabinet above the stovetop and brought it to the counter to braid. “Only a surprise to you. But none of us can.” And she smiled a little at Yesiko.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound

“the defining of variables, sequencing of commands, layering of functions—are like a map of the programmer’s mind.”
― Portia Elan, Homebound