“Even so, every day I wish and long to go home.”
Homer, Odyssey 5.219-220
When they miss home at a sleepover, you could say
“Fun at Grandma’s, and you still miss your own bed? Home is like that.”
Where this comes from
In Homer’s Odyssey, the goddess Calypso offers Odysseus a life that never ends if he stays on her island. He turns her down, and this is his answer, in a story first told more than 2,500 years ago: every day he longs to go home.
Homer, Odyssey 5.219-220. We put these lines into plain English ourselves, staying close to the original and to public-domain translations.
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