Quotes About Connection

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

The boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says, "We're that close to being gay." They laugh for half an hour. Collective dicks

It only makes sense, he thinks, that people whose only loyalty is to money would find each other. Shit seeks its own level.

Mateo runs up and Pablo hugs him. It's amazing, he thinks, that he never gets tired of that sensation.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst.

You can no more cut yourself away from the past than you can cut out your own heart.

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The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood.

Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, "It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit."22

One-minute mindfulness will help you reconnect with those precious times when you believed anything was possible, when you lived in the present moment, fully and completely.

Relationships are like powerful moods that people share.

I certainly dont write to exclude anyone.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

You must change the people you are speaking to so that you appear, to yourself, to be still alive.

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Bobbi doubted there was ever much future for a couple who had nothing in common except heterosexuality.

Katharine and I played Superghost and laughed at one another's jokes.

telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.