Where Home Is Quotes

“How else to explain the great mysteries of life and death except through the providence of God? How else to try to make sense of it all? Sunday”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

“I would never grow accustomed to the damage one human could inflict on another.”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

“there were consequences to the choices we made in life, that we should think them through carefully and be prepared to live with the results? Mother gave little credit to serendipity or luck. Informed decision, she called it. Personal choice. As”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

“Anyone can be beautiful, but kindness is much more elusive than beauty and thus it’s more valuable.”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

“Don’t make the mistake of considering poverty a disease for which we must find a cure. It is a social condition, not an illness. Poverty does not kill people, but its effects might.” “Angels dancing on a pin, Dr. Pasca?” “Not at all. Think it through. If we allow people to consider poverty an illness, then they will happily relegate it to the rarified air of laboratories and specialists and asylums instead of keeping it right where it belongs—in their own parlors and sitting rooms. They will expect you and me to find its cure instead of seeing that all of us have the responsibility to rectify the deplorable conditions in which many people live. Never take ownership of poverty, Doctor.”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

“Of course, I wasn’t home. I was in the middle of Chicago, not a mountain or cowboy in sight, just rundown buildings in a part of the city so negligible that it still bore obvious and ruinous scars from the city’s devastating fire forty years earlier. I rode with a stranger in a vehicle that bore no resemblance to a horse and would have sent the sheep—poor dumb creatures that they were—running blindly off the nearest cliff. Many of the decrepit houses we passed showed jagged, broken windows and were fronted by privies that did not offer even an illusion of privacy. My surroundings were so different from those of my childhood that we could have been on another planet.”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

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― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is

“No. You’re right. When you want something very badly, everything that helps you reach your ambition is a joy. I just don’t want you to make yourself ill along the way. I expect front row tickets to a performance someday.”
― Karen J. Hasley, Where Home Is