returning home Quotes

“Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming. You’re my good-luck bird, Jok. I’ll be lucky if I can do as well as you when this is all done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.”

“I’m glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever.”

″‘Your mother’s home,’ he said, as if they couldn’t see her standing there in the doorway behind him.”

“Men think more about returning home than about leaving.”

“Romans, make way. The good Andronicus, Patron of virtue, Rome’s best champion, Successful in the battles that he fights, With honour and with fortune is return’d.”

“You can imagine the sensation there was the next morning when the missing Princess Amy calmly walked down to breakfast as though she had never been away.”

“And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.”

“She returns home and learns that Jasmine was a true friend to her after all. She forgives both Jasmine and Will. In the end, she confronts her parents’ about the first Will.”

“I love to run with the wild horses, they are my relatives. If you let me go back to them I shall be happy for evermore.”

“But she did not forget her people. Each year she would come back, and she always brought her parents a colt.”

The story begins at school where Janna-Berta and the other students and teachers are alarmed of a nuclear accident in the vicinity. She returns home. Her younger brother Uli is alone because the parents are away and the grandparents on vacation.

“Return to your parents, fall on your knees before them, and, like a sensible and dutiful lad, implore their pardon for your imprudence.”