“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.”
“I belong where you belong”
“See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly.'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but you don't belong to it.'He leaned in very close to her.'You belong to you,' he said.”
“You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?”
“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.”
“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. ”