After five years I still had the impulse, every ten to twelve months, to find a new home. Spaces became too familiar, too elastic, too accommodating. Boredom and exasperation would set in. And though of course nothing really changed from one roof to another, I liked to harbor the illusion that small variations occurred within, that with each move something was being renewed.
Chloe AridjisStichwörter: moving
My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient with my sister, by the way she stopped tucking us into bed at night. I knew it from watching her feet, which began to shuffle after my father announced the move, as though they threw down invisible roots that needed to be pulled out with each step.
Catherine ChungStichwörter: immigration moving mothers-and-daughters
Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
Tahir ShahStichwörter: foreign-countries moving
Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
Tahir ShahStichwörter: travel moving tourist
Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.
Tahir ShahSome things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.
Gianna Perada CariniStichwörter: pain deep-thoughts life-and-living soulful healing rebirth moving
Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
Jeannette WallsStichwörter: leaving moving traveling
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónDon't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.
Norton JusterStichwörter: life inspirational truth procrastination motivation life-lessons moving
There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.
Richard L. ProennekeStichwörter: home moving packing packing-up
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