• "I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home."

Mahmoud Darwish, from “I Belong There”, translated by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché

• "Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."

Naguib Mahfouz

• "Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul."

Nayyirah Waheed

• "We must take the feeling of being at home into exile/ We must be rooted in the absence of a place."

Simone Weil, Decreation

• "And everything is strange to me… What am I doing here, what is the point of these smiles and gestures? My home is neither here nor elsewhere. And the world has become merely unknown landscape where my heart can lean on nothing. Foreign - who can know what this word means?"

Albert Camus, Notebooks "[I will circle round and arrive again.] Come almost home." Chang-rae Lee, from A Gesture Life

• "What is homeland? To hold on to your memory – that is homeland."

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief

• "I can say how did I get here?

I hardly know the way back, still less forward." Eavan Boland, “The Bottle Garden,” Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001)

• "Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."

Naguib Mahfouz

• "[I will circle round and arrive again.] Come almost home."

Chang-rae Lee, from A Gesture Life

• “So much of the city is our bodies. Places in us old light still slants through to. Places that no longer exist but are full of feeling, like phantom limbs. Even the city carries ruins in its heart. Longs to be touched in places only it remembers.”

Anne Michaels, excerpt from “Phantom Limbs”, The Weight of Oranges