“What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn’t belong anywhere?”
“What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?”
“It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”
“When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere,... It was in my head, what I thought and dreamt, what I believed..., that's where I belonged, that was my country.”
“I'm not like you, Mal. I never really fit in the way that you did. I never belonged anywhere.""You belonged with me," he said quietly."No, Mal. Not really. Not for a long time.”
“I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.”