You Can't Go Home Again/Quotes

"They called it paradise, I don't know why. You call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye."

- Eagles, The Last Resort

"''With their tanks and their guns,

Oh, my God, what have they done

To the town I loved so well?''"

- Phil Coulter, The Town I Loved So Well

""Hello, Mum," Harry said with his voice wavering, "I'm back." And he hugged her, amid the noisy mechanical sounds and the smell of burned gasoline; and Harry started crying, because he knew that nothing could go back, least of all him."

- Harry Potter, Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality, chapter 36

"Well, I came a long way to be here today And I left you so long on this avenue. And here I stand in the strangest land Not knowing what to say or do. As I gaze around at these strangers in town I guess the only stranger is me. And I wonder, yes, I wonder, Is this the way life's meant to be?"

- Electric Light Orchestra, "The Way Life's Meant to be".

"You can't go home again. That's supposed to be about maturity. It's not the same when you don't have the option."

- Aveline, Dragon Age 2

"And there's no place like home There's no place like home There's no place like home To return to"

- Devo, No Place Like Home