Quotes About Bonding

strangers were just people he hadn't become friends with yet.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

Tigerkit! Have you been eavesdropping again?" Tawnypelt glared at her dark tabby kit, but it was easy to see the fondness in her eyes.

Here lies Finpaw's tail," Finpaw mewed solemnly. "It died protecting its Clan." "Perhaps it's in StarClan right now, lying in the sunshine," Twigpaw joked. "There must be other tails there. I hope it's made friends," Finpaw mewed. Twigpaw nudged his shoulder fondly with her nose. "You've got bees in your brain." "You started it.

Spottedkit, Redkit, and Willowkit sat like three baby owls outside the nursery, their eyes fixed on the moss as the older kits tossed it back and forth. Bluefur

With Daisy, Sorreltail, and Ferncloud all busily licking, the kits soon started to stir, letting out faint, whimpering cries. But Daisy didn't look up until all three revived enough to nuzzle into her belly and start suckling.

We need a rest and a meal more than you can imagine," Firestar meowed. Ravenpaw gazed at his friend's mud-stained pelt. "Oh, Firestar," he murmured, "I think I can imagine.

pleased when Nightheart fell in beside her.

Her mind flooded with an image of bounding after them to walk alongside Crowfeather, who was bringing up the rear; she drew in her breath sharply, almost able to feel his dark gray pelt brush against hers as they picked their way over the tufts of boggy grass.

She yelped at a wave of sharp stabbing pain across her belly. She lifted her head and saw a small, slime-covered black shape slither out onto the leaves. Squirrelflight tugged away the transparent sac that covered its head and Leafpool stiffened as a wail pierced the air.

We joked and laughed as though the whole world and its secrets belonged to us alone.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

Siblings have always marked out territory through food.

The importance of shared childhood food memories for bonding families together can be seen among expats who carry their 'homeland' with them in the form of ingredients smuggled in suitcases.

To give a child the things they love to eat bestows a heroic glow. Seeing a child fed reassures you that you have done your duty as a parent, like a mother bird ferrying worms to the nest.

Pike settled into the chair next to his father

the relationship that I think is the most significant one in twenty-first-century American life: it is friendship. The

He'd say "I love you" to every man in the squad before rolling out, say it straight, with no joking or smart-ass lilt and no warbly Christian smarm in it either, just that brisk declaration like he was tightening the seat belts around everyone's soul.

Given the age differences, I didn't spend a lot of time with my siblings, except when pressed into service as a babysitter.

sometimes vacation together.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

It's when you meet another wretch who is as negative as you about everything that the thunder rolls and the lightening crashes and real life starts - because genuine communication has started

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.