Homecoming

After work, we return home. After retirement, maybe, a new home.

We find, if we look for them, appropriate endings to some books that we have been rereading. 

"'Swear a truce with us. Swear it now and then go back and make your people keep it!'"

-Vault Of The Ages, Chapter 20, p. 188.

Lenard must go back home to make his people keep the truce.

"'Go back to Terra?... In God's name, why?...

"'I have my own people.'"

-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, March 2012), pp. 339-606 AT XX, pp. 604, 605.

"Perhaps in a thousand years my Earthmen will come home again."

-James Blish, They Shall Have Stars IN Blish, Cities In Flight (London, 1981), pp. 7-129 AT CODA, p. 129.

"'...we're home...Home on Earth, for good...

We're all Earthmen, Karst. Earth is more than just one little planet, buried in another galaxy than this. Earth is much more important than that.

"Earth isn't a place. It's an idea."

-James Blish, Earthman, Come Home IN Cities In Flight, pp. 235-465 AT CHAPTER NINE, p. 465.

"'I want to go home...'

"I want to go home, too. We can't. We have to build our home again.'"

-A World Out Of Time, CHAPTER NINE, p. 246.

Two from Anderson, two from Blish and one from Niven.

We moved house in December and are now at home. Good night.