Quotes About Bonding

But first, a wave of laughter rising from the two women who visually embrace each other, as women do, who can talk at the ring of a doorbell about underwear, & breasts, & menstrual cycles, & the women connect, & can fall into each other lives and arms so quickly.

They don't want to cry, but it's an emotion that washes over them & covers their hands & arms & fingers & feet in a cleansing movement that's a bonding element that bonds & keeps them tied together, as if they are in a club for women warriors where teardrops, golden pure & sweet teardrops, come from a common river that runs through all women & holds them together in a way that Annie helped them to see & to live.

I was pretty sure that somewhere in the mother's handbook, it said your kids shouldn't have to bribe you to get hugged.

I'm going to email you every week and invite you out for dinner, and you can turn me down as much as you want, but when you're ready, we'll go somewhere fabulous with huge drinks, my treat. And you can tell me about him, or we can talk about bridezillas or gossip or go to a movie. We can talk now if you want, or we can just get down to work." I

Our families were herded out of the room, and I snuggled little Ainsley closer, smelling her head, a smell I already recognized. I'd cheerfully kill for her, happily lay down my life for her without a second's hesitation and with a smile on my face. My beautiful baby. My gift.

If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights.

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

Books + friendship = book club

what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....

Family time is the best time.

Como una bandada de cuervos posados en las ramas del árbol del ahorcado, así las amigas de Angustias estaban sentadas, vestidas de negro, en su cuarto, aquellos días.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Somewhere within the meeting of our eyes, our souls were bonding, even if our day to day lives were far apart.

The results are always the same: severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

Every night instead of watching television, Sandburg would read to his family." "I sure hope Mom doesn't start that," Michael muttered.

And there's no way around it. I didn't just pet this cat. I adopted it.

Why didn't people belong to the ones who tried to love them?

Today women live long into their children's adult lives . . . too little is made of the pleasure we women feel in conversing with our grown children, and in allowing ourselves, from time to time, to think of them as friends. I have been fortunate in having children with whom conversation is possible; the sheerest pleasure here, for me, has been in meeting with them each alone . . . [p. 185]

All good marriages are remarriages.

And my daughter laughs and laughs and laughs, and I say, "Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life." Now

It's just him and me and cookies.

Ride with them, eat with them, fight with them, for as long as it takes.

Ride with them, eat with them, fight with them, for as long as it takes. And watch.