“some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.”
“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”
“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”
“Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.”
“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged. ”
“By being “educated” I mean having such an apprehension of the contours of the map of what has been written in the past, as to see instinctively where everything belongs, and approximately where anything new is likely to belong; it means, furthermore, being able to allow for all the books one has not read and the things one does not understand – it means some understanding of one’s own ignorance.”