Quotes About Connection

We all live in darkness, kept apart from each other by walls easily crossed but full of fake doors . . . --from the poem Epilogue (David Unger translation)

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?

You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.

Of course I saved you, she said. I couldn't do without you. And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.

If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma.

Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling. "I remember," she said aloud. "You saved me." Artemis smiled back. "It never happened," he said.

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

This is what love does, he realized, and in that moment he understood why Artemis had kidnapped a fairy to get the money to find his father. Love makes everything else seem inconsequential

Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.

Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month." I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.

That's not how it works, Foaly. Consultants don't give orders to captains." "We have a Koboi sighting coming through on a satellite. It's a live feed," countered the technical consultant. "We're on our way," said Holly, severing the connection.

I feel him near in the twist of me guts. It's something I've always been able to do. --The Reluctant Assassin

Artemis and Holly stood there in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions, and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes, and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward. No1 knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't resist a parting crack. "I now pronounce you . . .

Friendship is not a science, Mud Boy. Forget about your massive brain for one minute. Just do what you feel is right.

There was another thought, more persistent than the rest. It crashed into his mind like a tsunami: I have friends. Thought Artemis Fowl the Second.

Artemis stepped into his mother's embrace. It was warm and strong. She was wearing perfume. He felt like the boy he was.

We hebben het overleefd. Betekent dat dat we nu vrienden zijn? Door een traumatische gebeurtenis met elkaar verbonden?' … 'Ik vind dat ik niet betaald moet krijgen om een vriend te helpen. Hou dat elfengoud maar.

Artemis did not rise to the forge-a-relationship lure that Adamsson had tossed out. He did not have room in his life for yet another friend that he didn't trust.

us, by the way – "they are forever dead to their brothers and sisters." So there was no guarantee that that particular fairy was worth even

Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. How was that possible? How did you do that?

Artemis en Holly stonden in hun ondergoed naast elkaar en haakten voorzichtig hun vingers ineen... 'Dan verklaar ik jullie hierbij...

Holly... Je hebt me wederom gered.' … 'Natuurlijk heb ik je gered,' zei ze. 'Ik kan toch niet zonder je?

Some people ain't got no Riverbend in their soul.

Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature