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Quote #10
And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky. (238)
A feeling of being "home" can be momentary and fleeting, especially when the outside world is so bleak. The narrator senses that the feeling of being "at home" can only last so long before you have to go back and confront the real world.