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Quotes About Connection

I know you pretty well. Better than anyone I think. I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. - Unknown
~ Kenneth W. Osbeck
Living a life without prayer is like building a house without nails. - Unknown
~ Kenneth W. Osbeck
Love is the most important part of life, isn't it. If you have love you can live in this world in a true way and if you love each other you can see past everything and accept what you don't understand and forgive what you don't know or don't like. Love is all. Love is patient and boundless and right-hearted and long-suffering. I hope you may love each other all your days of life together. And I hope you may have a great many years of those days.
~ Kent Haruf
I wonder if you would come and sleep in the night with me. And talk.
~ Kent Haruf
This boy needs a dog. What makes you say that? He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.
~ Kent Haruf
Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings. Except I still say that this isn't true of you and me. Not right now, not today.
~ Kent Haruf
Love is the most important part of life isn't it. If you have love, you can live in this world in a true way and if you love each other you can see past everything and accept what you don't understand and forgive what you don't now or don't like. Love is all. Love is patient and boundless and right-hearted and long-suffering.
~ Kent Haruf
I'm talking about getting through the night, she says. And lying warm in bed, companionably. Lying down in bed together and you staying the night. The nights are the worst. Don't you think? Yes. I think so, he says. Our souls at night
~ Kent Haruf
It was surprising to him, how quickly she could fall asleep.
~ Kent Haruf
Love is the most important part of life isn't it. If you have love, you can live in this world in a true way and if you love each other you can see past everything and accept what you don't understand and forgive what you don't know or don't like. Love is all. Love is patient and boundless and right-hearted and long-suffering. Move
~ Kent Haruf
Mi chiedevo se ti andrebbe qualche volta di venire a dormire da me. Cosa? In che senso? Nel senso che siamo tutti e due soli. Ce ne stiamo per conto nostro da troppo tempo. Da anni. Io mi sento sola. Penso che anche tu lo sia. Mi chiedevo se ti andrebbe di venire a dormire da me, la notte. E parlare. Sto parlando di attraversare la notte insieme. Le notti sono la cosa peggiore, non trovi?
~ Kent Haruf
As the weather held that fall Louis often walked out at night past her house and looked at the light shining upstairs in her bedroom, her bedside lamp that he knew and the room with its big bed and dark wooden dresser and the bathroom located down the hall, and remembered everything about the room and the nights lying in the dark talking and the closeness of it all.
~ Kent Haruf
I don't want to bother your father, but I'll come again if that's all right. Yes. I think it would be. I don't know that he's very religious. No. Not in any orthodox way. I understand that. In his own way perhaps. Perhaps. Well. I'll be going. He held out his hand to shake hers and instead she surprised him and hugged him. He was a good deal taller than she was. Thank you for coming, she said again.
~ Kent Haruf
It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
~ Kent Haruf
Well, I'm just going to say it. I'm listening, Louis said. I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.
~ Kent Haruf
Lo echabas de menos? Por supuesto. Sobre todo la intimidad. Ya no teníamos la misma. Teníamos un trato cordial y formalmente agradable y educado, pero nada más. No
~ Kent Haruf
does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly
~ Kent Haruf
Johnson women
~ Kent Haruf
From the very beginning of time itself, enemies have become friends, and friends have become lovers. It is not beyond the realm of possibility, even if history and experiences might be against it. Against us.
~ Keri Arthur
He took possession of my lips even before the last word left my mouth, taking them, tasting them. Claiming them in a way that was all male, all possession, all desire. No one had ever kissed me like that. No one.
~ Keri Arthur
Dance with me. This night and the rest of our nights, for as long as the divine light shines in the evening skies. For as long as we live beneath it.
~ Keri Arthur
His mouth tilted and his eyes twinkled. I knew it. One look into yer eyes and I could fall at yet feet.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Ye are different, Emma. I doona need ye in order to survive. But surviving is no' the same as living. Or the same as feeling human again. I am alive when I'm with you. Ye feed my soul. (Angus MacKay)
~ Kerrelyn Sparks