Quotes About Connection

We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.

Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.

Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac.

If your friends don't want your boyfriend, what's the point?

Go out dancing tonight, my dear, and go home with someone, and if the love doesn't last beyond the morning, then know I love you.

They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style—all the things one shouldn't throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life pursuing.

What do you like to do? Do you like to get fucked a long time, deeply, slowly, searchingly?

Have you ever noticed," he said, stirred now by this vision of domestic bliss that was beyond his reach, and shocked earlier that evening to find himself crying in the subway on his way home from a client, "that gay people secrete everything in each other's presence but tears?

He stopped visiting married friends. Married friends, he decided one evening after returning from a visit, depress me.

He was more than ever certain that he had a vague romantic destiny. Little wonder that when he looked at strangers on the street now, his unquiet yearning for rescue went out to them.

He fell in love with people he did not know how to meet.

That must be love! Or is it what Dr. Rose Franzblau says in the Post? The mutual support of two mature people involved in separate quests for self-realization.

He usually smoked a cigarette and sat down and introduced himself to someone and chatted—in the sweetest, calmest, most amiable way, poised, adult, and wise.

You fell in love with him right away: with his fine blue eyes, his moustache, his red hooded sweat shirt and tennis sneakers, his slender form, his chesthut hair, the way he looked at you with that blend of humor, intelligence, and relaxed confidence.

Love is, after all, my darlings, all anticipation and imagination, and when they finally met they would say something perfectly mundane!

They made love much later on a mattress in the living room, as the cries of children playing in the street echoed around them, and when Malone left he had fallen in love; not with the young man, but the thought of him in the bathtub with his candles reading books of anatomy; and when Malone went to see him the next time, he simply sat with him in the bathroom and did not even ask to make love.

A good idea is an orphan without effective communication.

I know that we have grown apart and that's as it should be. We learn what we can from certain people, then we move on after we've taken what we need. When we learn nothing new about ourselves in a relationship that's when the relationship is over. Or it's over the moment when we're afraid to learn something new about ourselves. But what I have been learning about myself ... whatever it was inside me that was sparked and challenged when I first met you ... is deeply connected to this story.

Let the ones without power scowl and make fierce faces. You smile. It's an invitation to connect with another person. And once the invitation to accepted, relax and listen. . . you'll come to know as much as you'll ever need to about that person,

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

I always thought I'd be playing; now I watch Manchester United every weekend on Sky Sports and they're using 'Found What I've Been Looking For' as a theme song - and I'm sitting at a pub and it comes on and I'm like, 'Oh yeah, mad.'

In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

During the week it isn't always easy to sit down together and I am usually in a rush to get everyone off to school. A bowl of cereal and milk with fruit is perfect because it's quick and easy. I like to mix it up on the weekends when we can all relax in our pajamas.

I love being surrounded by my family at weekends.