Marked The Home Quotes

When Zoey goes home after being Marked at her high school, she reflects on how the house her family lives in doesn't really feel like home to her. So a house and a home aren't necessarily the same thing, at least in her mind—a house can be somewhere you just happen to live, and a home is somewhere you want to return to, since that's where the people who truly care about you live.

Classic teenage temper tantrum there, Zoey. But she has a point: Her family's home is not a welcoming, loving place, and at least with the House of Night she knows she might be in for a dark time.

Poor Zoey… when home doesn't feel like home to you, you latch onto whatever you've got. In this case, it's her friends at school. She knows her friends care about her and accept her (well, she thinks so at the time, anyway), so being in their presence recreates the feeling of home that she's so desperately missing in the house she occupies with her family.

The change in Zoey's home life—when her mom married the step-loser, John—was so drastic that it really seems to have turned her life upside down. Luckily she was able to go visit her loving grandma pretty frequently and reinstate some feeling of normalcy in her life.

Since Zoey basically ran away from home in order to get to the House of Night so the Change wouldn't prematurely kill her, she wasn't expecting to see her old stuff in her new room. Luckily her grandma was looking out for her, and she braved Zoey's mom's wrath to bring Zoey some of her things.

During Zoey's first time at a ritual devoted to Nyx, she's encouraged to make a wish/prayer. Her wish obviously revolves around fitting in, since that is really important to her (along with a lot of teenagers). But she also phrases it in terms of home: She doesn't just want friends who accept her, she wants a place where she belongs. And she wants that place to be stable, not something that can vanish in an instant.

Zoey is so wrapped up in her new life at the House of Night that she doesn't miss her old home at all. We're not surprised that she doesn't miss the horrid house she had to share with her neglectful family, but she has also been so busy she's forgotten to miss her grandma, whom we know she loves. Maybe this means she's finally getting established in her new home, though.

Hey Zoey, tell us how you really feel, okay? In this outburst to Nefret, Zoey vents about how her family has pretty much fallen apart after her mom's remarriage. And yeah, we can see why it'd bother her for her mom to not act like a mom should. Instead her mom caters to her step-dad's every wish. Ugh. No wonder it doesn't feel like home.

Here, Aphrodite lashes out at Zoey, asking if Zoey knows what it's like to not be fully accepted into a group. Zoey, of course, knows exactly how this feels, but she doesn't want to tell Aphrodite that. We wonder what would've happened if the girls had discovered that they shared more common ground than they realize.

When Zoey finally womans up and accepts that she has special powers that make her unique, she challenges Aphrodite for leadership of the Dark Daughters. Had she gone in planning to do that? No, not really. But now she realizes that she can serve a higher purpose (a.k.a. Nyx) by remaking the Dark Daughters into a more welcoming group, somewhere she can call her home.