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Quotes About Connection

The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me: she look'd down—a silence of some moments followed.
~ Laurence Sterne
for though he never after went to the house, yet he never met Bridget in the village, but he would either nod or wink, or smile, or look kindly at her,—or (as circumstances directed), he would shake her by the hand,—or ask her lovingly how she did,—or would give her a ribban,—and now and then, though never but when it could be done with decorum, would give Bridget a—
~ Laurence Sterne
I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who find themselves ill at ease, unless they are let into the whole secret from first to last, of everything which concerns you.
~ Laurence Sterne
A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .
~ Laurence Sterne
Sözcükleri telaffuz ettiÄŸim anda, kalp bölgesinin civar?ndaki telleri titreÅŸtiren bir çaba hissedebiliyordum.-Beyin bunu kaydetmedi.-Zaten genellikle bu ikisi birbiriyle pek anlaÅŸamaz.
~ Laurence Sterne
When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who's broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don't know where we come from … we don't know where we are.
~ Laurie Anderson
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
~ Laurie Anderson
Your eyes. It's a day's worth of work to look into them.
~ Laurie Anderson
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
~ Laurie Colwin
For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
~ Laurie Colwin
Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.
~ Laurie Colwin
Out on the street I felt lost wandering around without my child. I felt I ought to wear a pin that said: I have a child in school at the moment.
~ Laurie Colwin
We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans forward over the candle, the shadow of the flame dancing against his bottom lip. I lean forward to meet him as well. It's a kiss full of promise, of trust, and of all that is magic.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
Love isn't rational, it's instinctive
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
If I told you, you'd only know it in your mind, not in your heart. There's a big difference.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love. [Stacey] Intimate? Sharing food? People you love? Amber raises an eyebrow. Um, no offense, Stace, but it sounds like Gram was into food kink.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
Tomorrow we're to visit the Dardanelles. Jack Aird speaks of them as though I should know them, but I really don't recall them. One meets so many people.
~ Laurie Graham
I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Having a friend made everything else suck less.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn't touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn't drown.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson