Quotes About Connection

People experience the life-changing force of healing relationships when something powerful comes out of one and touches something good in another.

By cutting God off (what a staggering concept of freedom—mere humans can cut God off from their lives), you cut off the only source of true significance and security.

Nora Dunn When faced with no real friends, she went out into the world and made some, and to watch her try to create a life with meaning was touching.

Indeed, to be fucked pleasurably is a gift.

How needy man is.

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

She had always loved to tease and considered it an irony of her life that she was often drawn to men who didn't recognize teasing even when she was inflicting it on them.

He had known several men who had lost limbs in battle; the men all claimed that they still felt things in the place where the limb had been. It was natural enough, then, that with Bill suddenly gone he and Gus would continue to have some of the feelings that went with friendship, even though the friend was gone.

He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.

It ain't a mistake to behave like a human being once in a while

It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.

You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.

People he had known all his life were all around him, but they simply didn't see him.

It's happiness to see you.

Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.

I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.

He was two or three steps away from her and for a moment they did not know how to get to one another.

it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance.

There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie. Even when she took him, there was a distance between them.

In the whole two years of their marriage she had never said anything similar, anything to indicate that she felt their being together was something less than a part of natural law.

My grandmother is old," Famous Shoes said. "She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.

It was an odd thing, but true, that the death of an enemy could affect you as much almost as much as the death of a friend.