Quotes About Connection

Kiss Aziza for me," she said. "Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart. Will you do that for me?

In my experience, men who understand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

As soon as she was in Mariam's arm, Aziza's thumb shot into her mouth and she buried her face in Mariam's neck. Mariam bounced her stiffly, a half-bewildered, half-grateful smile on her lips. Mariam had never before been wanted like this. Love had never been declared to her so guilelessly, so unreservedly.

In my experience, men who undestand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

It was you Nabi, she said in my ear. It was always you. Didn't you know?

have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter

People talked to each other in between purchases to find out information. The buzz of their whispers made it sound as if the air were filled with flies.

Come up here. Tell us your story.

I missed you so much, she breathed. I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. I missed you, too.

I laughed as we turned in a tight circle... Tonight you're all mine. Jake smiled but looked me dead in the eye. No. From now on. My heart skipped. What? Yours, he said simply, from now on.

Jake's POV: ...And we laughed. Suddenly my palms were sweating under my gloves. I slid my hand away and we got back to work, but I felt as if my whole body was on high alert. There was no getting around it anymore. I was falling for this girl. Big-time.

Only after living through all eternity and assuring myself that you were mine every instant, only then would I return to you and live with you through all eternity, and no doubt not have patience enough to be separated from you for an instant without longing, but assurance enough to sit calmly at your side.

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

For You For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves. I remove my jewelry and set it on the nightstand, I unhook my ribs, spread my lungs flat on a chair. I dissolve like a remedy in water, in wine. I spill without staining, and leave without stirring the air. I do it for love. For love, I disappear.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part or kiss anyway, let's start with that, with the kissing part, because it's better than the parting part

Norah looked at her son's tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.

You hold me at arm's length.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connected to everything else." Then

Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.

i have found that if you love your life .. Life will love you back .! :)

The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink your tears