#homecoming

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. ↗

— Paul Celan

#poetry #sort

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#concord #hampshire #homecoming #i #new

Trei did not stay to look out at the city, but went to find his cousin. He went smiling, and with a lightness to his step almost as though he were flying, for he felt at last that he had, indeed come home. ↗

— Rachel Neumeier

#home

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team. ↗

— Marla Maples

#basketball team #homecoming #i #queen #star

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#arrival #attachment #belonging #completion #fullfilment

Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#homecoming-dance #puke #dating

Is that actually you or am I dreaming again? ↗

— Ella Fox

#homecoming #dreams