The Ruin of Magic Quotes

“We "home in on" something; the button on a device that returns you to the main screen is called "home". Home is a destination, and a location, and an idea; it is a nowhere and a very special somewhere. It is made by us, and it makes us. Home is the place we go back to, in dreams and in folktales, at the end of a regular working day, at the end of long and winding roads and around the corner from the shops; it is the ultimate modern purchase and security, and the soundest bearing known since human history began. Home is the safest spot, and the most dangerous. It is where we keep our treasures, our memories, our identities themselves, and our secrets, our shame and the fragments shored against our ruin.”
― Kate Holden, The Ruin of Magic: Longing and Belonging in Strange Times