Quote #94947
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line frames travel as a paradoxical quest: we leave home believing that distance, novelty, and encounter will reveal who we are, yet the deepest recognition often arrives on return, when familiar places are seen with altered eyes. “Search” suggests outward movement—collecting experiences, testing identities—while “find yourself there” implies that the self is not manufactured abroad so much as clarified by contrast. The quote also hints at the emotional logic of diaspora and migration: leaving can intensify attachment, memory, and self-knowledge, making “home” less a static location than a mirror that reflects what travel has changed in us.




