However long we live here, however much I feel at home in Miami, I -- like everyone else -- am an exile, an exile who cannot go home.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Despite feeling at home in a new place, the speaker acknowledges the permanent status of being an exile unable to return.
- In plain terms
- You can feel at home somewhere new but still be an exile who cannot go back.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that displacement is a part of your identity even if you settle.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where is home for you?
- How do you handle longing for a place you can't return to?
Another view
Not everyone who moves is an exile in the same emotional sense.
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