Quotes About Connection

But I could never make friends again truly, neither in my heart nor in my head. When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst. But it was more complicated than that.

Amíg egyikünk él, mind a ketten élünk.

He heard her coming up the stairs and noticed the difference in her tread when she was carrying two glasses and when she had walked down bare-handed. He heard the rain on the windowpane and he smelled the beech logs burning in the fireplace. As she came into the room he put his hand out for the drink and closed his hand on it and felt her touch the glass with her own.

Mindenkinek szüksége van arra, hogy nyíltan beszélhessen valakivel – mondta az asszony. – AzelÅ'tt ott volt a vallás meg a többi értelmetlenség, most meg mindenkinek szüksége van valakire, akinek mindent Å'szintén bevallhat, mert különben akármilyen értékes ember, magányossá lesz.

Os nomes penetram-nos até aos ossos.

I want us to be all mixed up. I don't want you to go away.

Books should be about the people you know, that you love and hate, not about the people you study up about.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I think I understand, Willie," he said. "Oh shit," Willie said. "You never understand anybody that loves you.

never asks for whom the bell tolls;it tolls for you.

It must be very nice to have a daughter. You cannot know how nice it is. It is like a second wife. My wife knows now all I think, all I say, all I believe, all I can do, all that I cannot do and cannot be. But now there is always someone you do not know, who does not know you, who loves you in ignorance and is strange to you both. Some one very attractive that is yours and not yours...

But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

For a part of a day it would be pleasant to have the house neat and to think alone and read without hearing other people talk and look at things without speaking of them and work properly without interruption and then he knew the loneliness would start. The three boys had moved into a big part of him again that, when they moved out, would be empty and it would be very bad for a while.

But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Why we were born, if not to help each other? So, nothing to listen and nothing to speak is a very cold help.

Together they made the bed with me in it. That was new to me and an admirable proceeding.

Nunca salgas de viaje con una persona que no amas.

In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

I went back to Bill. He blew his breath at me to show how cold it was, and went on playing.

Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.

May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other. 'I

If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for, which is to make something that will become a part of the reader's experience and a part of his memory.

Every man needs to speak to someone. Before we had faith and other foolishness. Now everyone needs to have someone with whom it can talk to plainly, because a man, in addition to his boldness he can have, feels very lonely.