“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.”
“I just want to know where I stand. I hate feeling like I don’t belong anywhere.”“You belong with me.” He says this as if he were talking about the sky being blue. As if it is a widely known and accepted fact.”
“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. ”
“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.”
“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.”
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”