Quotes About Connection

For the first two years of "Checking Out," I had an epigraph that ran underneath my byline—a quote from Ernest Hemingway. A simple one-liner that read, "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

But if you went with someone you loved, you'd often get more than that. You'd get to share it with them. You'd get to remember what they remembered too.

I smile as they walk up. How can I not? Bailey is smiling too. She is smiling at me. "Mom," she says.

a quote from Ernest Hemingway. A simple one-liner that read, "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The bigger point for me was that if you were on a trip with someone you didn't love, at the end of it you'd only get to remember what you remembered. But if you went with someone you loved, you'd often get more than that. You'd get to share it with them. You'd get to remember what they remembered too.

think, or I used to think at least, 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," I said. "Something that is worth preserving . . ." He

I think, or I used to think at least, 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," I said. "Something that is worth preserving

What brings you to our little corner of the world? And how can I go about making it your favorite corner?

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

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others?

The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.

Words have life, memory, when you hear them you travel to the past

Para a mesa e para a cama, uma só vez se chama.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them. Like water, words are a powerful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

La experiencia lo hizo descubrir el gran poder que las palabras tenían para acercar o alejar a las personas, y que lo importante no era el idioma que se utilizara sino la intención que llevaba el comunicado.

She felt love: real Love. The kind of love that makes no distinction, that doesn't separate, that is not contained within a body. She cried from so much love.

La niña, con asombro, descubrió que el eco le regresaba las palabras. La abuela le explicó que por eso es tan importante honrar a la palabra. Cada sonido que emitimos navega por los aires, pero siempre viene de regreso a nosotros.

Inmediatamente, sus miradas enardecidas se fundieron de tal manera que quien los hubiera visto sólo habría notado una sola mirada, un solo movimiento rítmico y sensual, una sola respiración agitada y un mismo deseo

Lupita supo que nunca había dejado de amar. Que ella vivía desde el inicio de los tiempos y que desde ese momento ella amó cada partícula que se conectó con otra. Definitivamente ella amó, ella amaba y ella seguiría amando.

todos nacemos con una caja de cerillos en nuestro interior, no los podemos encender solos, necesitamos, como en el experimento, oxígeno y la ayuda de una vela. Sólo que en este caso el oxígeno tiene que provenir, por ejemplo, del aliento de la persona amada; la vela puede ser cualquier tipo de alimento, música, caricia, palabra o sonido que haga disparar el detonador y así encender uno de los cerillos.

Do you hear how the sand sings?

EL AMOR NO SE PIENSA: SE SIENTE O NO SE SIENTE

Los juicios, en definitiva, nos acercan o nos alejan de los otros, y hay que saber hacerlos a un lado para poder captar la verdadera esencia de cualquier persona. Esto suena muy fácil, pero no lo es. (P. 186)