• Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted. -- Abraham Verghese, Cutting of the Stone
• “You are my home. Wherever you are, that’s where I’m meant to be.” — S.L. Naeole, Bird Song
• “We found our homes in the wrinkled corners of each other’s souls.” — Sarah Schwab
• “Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” — E.E. Cummings

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• i never understood / what made your lips on my neck / such an intimate affair / until your teeth grazed my pulse / and i realized / you could tear open my throat / and make me bleed out in your arms / but instead / you chose to kiss
• Maybe one day we’ll meet again when we’re different people. Maybe then we’ll be better for each other. -- absentions
• “No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest.” — Ilse Lehiste