Home Bound Quotes

“for all its layers and complexity, home possesses a certain universality. Our nesting dolls are built from the same DNA blocks and carbon atoms. As we close our eyes and think home, I suspect that we all feel something, that our minds entertain similar questions in seeking to define it. It’s the confidence in this universality that emboldens us to ask complete strangers where they are from.”
― Vanessa A. Bee, Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging

“Our sense of home is thus necessarily tangled with that of others. For some, deciphering its meaning, its boundaries, and its relation to the rest of the world is a matter of survival. But this should not leave us hopeless. As my friend Pete Davis wrote in his book Dedicated: “Our roots can lie in the future,” binding us and our descendants together in a shared destination, be it a goal or a land.”
― Vanessa A. Bee, Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging