Quotes About Connection

Mrs. Popper smiled, but neither of them spoke again, all the way to Olney.

Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros.

Well, that's where we started for," he said. "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," Campo said. "I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me." "Well, you sing them, who do they belong to?" Pea asked. "They belong to those who hear them," Po said.

I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know.

Fear is the brother of hate. One

Rip. "Velcro.

One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor. - Sean O'Casey, The Plow and the Stars

The act of breathing begins our life as we come out of the womb; in our last moment, when we cease breathing, our life is over. It only makes sense that the breath should also have a profound influence on all the moments in between.

Now I look at this story and it seems to be about all of us.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Looking in the dead bird's eye, I realized that these strange, unthought-of connections—sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation

He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.

Jag ställer egentligen bara ett moraliskt krav på mänskligheten, men ett ganska strängt: att den skall älska mig.

Always remember, said Petra, a friend is someone who understands your past, believes in you future, and accepts you just the way you are.... And a friend stands by you, Suzanne thought to herself,...No matter what it cost her.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you. Something that is worth preserving...

you fill in the blanks—with stories and memories from the people who love you.

there are certain things we can't erase, certain things that we reveal to the people closest to us despite what we may or may not know we are telling them. [Hannah Hall]

But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen

Someone's affection would give someone else freedom.

This was something we sometimes did on days we got home late—on days we were too tired to get into the big stuff. We each picked one thing from the day to tell each other about. One good thing from our separate lives.

I just think people forget what it feels like to really be in love, you know? Like when that's the only thing in the world that matters. I just don't want to decide it's not that important.