Quotes About Connection

He tells me that smart houses are coming, that soon everything in our lives will be hooked up to the internet of things, blah, blah, blah, and we will be connected through social media to every other person in the world. He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!

Sometimes your heart runs away with someone and all it takes is a bandana on a stick.

Every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.

What's keeping you here?" he says. Please, I think, but no, I can't even look at him. All these people. I have so many people, you wouldn't believe it.

Caring is all we have, I think. Cynicism is just a soft form of denial.

Sometimes your heart runs away with someone and all it takes is a bandanna on a stick.

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

There are bills and supermarket flyers. Also a magazine addressed to a former tenant. The cover promises tips for helping depressive people. What to say: I'm sorry that you're in so much pain. I am not going to leave you. I am going to take care of myself, so you don't need to worry that your pain might hurt me.

But the smell of her hair. The way she clasped her hand around my fingers. This was like medicine. For once, I didn't have to think. The animal was ascendant.

Sometimes I find myself having little conversations in my head with the punk rock kids upstairs.

Sometimes on the subway platform I still sway, imagining her in my arms.

The core delusion is that I am here and you are there.

If you have not known suffering, love me.

If I had to sum up what he did to me, I'd say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.

It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner. If the question is asked by someone you love, it is fair to assume that this person hopes to feature in this recollection he has called forth.

But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.

The baby's eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she'd stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were the island she'd washed up on.

What did you do today, you'd say when you got home from work, and I'd try my best to craft an anecdote for you out of nothing.

When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, But aren't you afraid you're going to get lonely? Get?

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

I'd rather be with you than be with me and something's wrong with that.

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

And I have always loved you, and if it sometimes seems to me that it is only now that I really love you since we have met again, it is not true, however great my love may be, for I have always loved you, I have always loved you. And if it should happen now that you would become mine- you cannot imagine what that would mean to me, if you, who were taken from me for so many years, were to come back.

As Long as we Keep telling stories about people we lost, they'll never go away. (from Bonus features 'Big Hero 6')