There are times you feel you've made a mess of your life, that was the sum of it, the harder to bear when you think of yourself as a basically competent person, even an accomplished one.
-- Narrator (1 )

Importance: Lorna is examining the reason she is about to cry as she prepares to leave Pont-les-Pruits for California.

All at once, she felt less optimism than before. Or, reassurance mixed with defeat, for coming back to where you started is not what you plan when you start out.”
-- Narrator (5 )

Importance: Lorna is struggling with the idea that she is returning to America after her second failed marriage. The reader may assume that the “home” referred to in the title is this move to California but Lorna later realizes that a person can have more than one place that seems like home.

Some people didn't move on to Nespresso pods, didn't throw out jars of spices years...
-- Narrator (10 )