Quotes About Connection

Livingston: Did you feel that way about Peter when you started? Levchin: We hit it off really quickly. I have this IQ bias—anybody really smart, I will figure out a way to deal with.

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling."

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

I 'Facebook like' you, but I'm not IN 'Facebook like' with you.

It was always you. I thought it was someone else, but it was you. You were the person that I felt.

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.

Internet access came before pride. 

How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it that does.

I tell you that I like being this close to you and how you feel against me. But now even I'm hesitant. I'm afraid that when we hit the ground, this will be over. We'll land and this feeling between us will vanish. That you won't feel it any longer. I can't stand that thought.

This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all over the world, by people living in different circumstances and different times.

her dearest friends were like dreams she had woken from. How had she missed so much?

Our love has always been its own country.

You are not alone, she thought. Don't be afraid. You are beloved.

Standing at the grave, Marianne was suddenly aware of her own blindness; her dearest friends were like dreams she had woken from. How had she missed so much?

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

But to me, an emotional affair was worse than a physical one. It's funny, I know, because I had placed such an emphasis on sex by not having it before marriage. After I actually had sex, I understood that the emotional part was what mattered. And Johnny and I had that, which seemed far more of a betrayal to my marriage than sex.

She gave me a huge smile, and I took it so I could manage to give it back to her.

And, most important, I love you.

I was a seventh grader, twelve, and I had tagged along to so many church camps and vacation bible schools as a preacher's daughter that I was excited to be with kids and believers my own age. One of the best parts of every church camp stay was when we sang together. People who were once strangers sang hymns that felt they like were written for just that shared moment.

At the risk of hurting your feelings, I think you should know that some kisses are more special than others.

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.