Quotes About Connection

Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

It was intensely infuriating the way it always is when you call a man you shouldn't be calling.

As much as he needed the sweet surcease to be had in her body, he yearned to know her mind, to seek deep within it and sense a welcome for him there. He wanted to share her thoughts, her dreams, her secrets. He wanted her to come to him with desire, to reach inside him and discover how open he was to her.

This was Valcour, the man she had laughed and teased with and with whom she had played tricks upon the servants and neighbors.

She does not exist for herself. She exists for and through her community.

It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky.

Keep in touch. I suddenly realized how annoying that expression was. Like, Now it's your job to stay in contact with me. It said, I'm really just too lazy . I started to write back, to keep in touch , but decided I'd be lazy as well.

Kiss me, Joe. I won't shatter… Seriously, Joe, you can touch me without breaking me. In fact, you might even put me a little bit back together.

I don't know, Laurel," said David, and I loved how he said my name, like he enjoyed it.

This is what I discovered in all those museums in Europe when you really connect with a work of art, it doesn't matter that a million people have already stood where you're standing. The instant it means something to you, it's yours.

En el instante en el que comienza a significar algo para ti, te pertenece.

That's why they were meant to be together.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

We used to say he must've met you in the fiction section.

She wanted a true partnership fueled by intellect and creativity, respect and desire.

A quilt, like a family, doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be inclusive.

What's the point of having the personal cell phone number of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if you don't call him every once in a while?

The smell of his sweat came out of my pores.

I realized that a book can reach out and embrace you like an arm and make you walk away from you thought you understood.

Cradles of the Reich covers a dark period of history, but I hope readers will be heartened by how the connections women forge can carry us through the most harrowing of times and sometimes even drive us to act with heroism we hadn't realized we were capable of.

There was so much I needed to learn about Adam before our wedding. I needed to show him how perfect we could be together. I had to win over his friends and family, possibly convert to Judaism, then get him to propose. I needed a serious action plan. I needed a first date.

My cousin Richard always says that everyone has two marriages, but the lucky ones get to have them both with the same person.