Quotes About Community

This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

I hope someday to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it's at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.

You shut down a library Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope.

Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace.

In my experience, there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea.

Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you about empathy. But you can't buy books if you can't even afford to make rent. That's why libraries are a vital resource. You shut a library, you don't just shut down a building. You shut down hope.

Le Marais?' 'It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay.

The sights and sounds of home.

how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason,

Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you—nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

He could be happy, if surrounded by the right people, if allowed to be Will, instead of The Man in the Wheelchair, the list of symptoms, the object of pity. And

Perché questo vuol dire crescere in una piccola città: tutti pensano di sapere chi sei. Nell era la ragazza giudiziosa. La ragazza tranquilla. Quella che pianificava attentamente ogni dettaglio e a cui potevi dare l'incarico di innaffiare le piante o badare ai tuoi figli con la sicurezza che non sarebbe scappata con tuo marito né con quello di nessun'altra.

I missed the customers, their company, and the easy chatter that swelled and dipped gently like a benign sea around me.

Books are what teach you about life. Books teach you empathy. But you can't buy books if you barely got enough to make rent. So that library is a vital resource! You shut a library, Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope.

Someone who had lost a child, according to village wisdom, should be allowed to grieve in whichever way she chose; the awfulness was so unimaginable that unlike other life events—weddings, christenings, disappearing spouses—no one felt qualified to suggest a right or wrong way of dealing with

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people." "Find my people." "Your tribe.

For people who lived so deep in nature, the inhabitants of Baileyville seemed oblivious to the idea of respecting it.

The floods had devastated the lower reaches of the town, home to the poorer families who were less likely to make a noise about it. Or at least have that noise listened to. In the more affluent parts of town, life had already pretty much returned to normal.

wondering how she could be in a house full of people and also in the loneliest place on earth.

First rule of Geek Club. There is no Geek Club.