"Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies."

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Source : Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jenna Blum

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Home Quotes

“You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.”
“[Steven Spielberg makes] human movies. Movies [...] that reflect the life we wish it would be, not necessarily as it is. And the happy ending, you know. Life is a tough thing to begin with, and I like the happy ending.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”
“I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.”
“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”
“The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.”
“My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.”

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