Quotes About Connection

I have been aware of a boredom, a restlessness, that no ordinary friendship can satisfy: only and extraordinary one.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

She wished he were here. In such a short time he had become all-important to her. Thoughts of him filled her waking hours, and her sleep was dotted with dreams of him.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

They never looked at anyone else, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an inhuman way, so intense. Divine, I felt. Or insane.

I don't know why it's taken me so long to realise, but now it's so obvious that underneath the invisible barriers and expectations we have constructed and placed on each other, we are all brothers and sisters; we are all just pink flesh and bone.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

But how do you ever know that you know a person?

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie: Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Judy Blume: Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Lynda Johnson Robb: Children's books tie together the stages of life. You read them when you are eight or ten or twelve, and then they stay with you. I still have many books that I loved as a child and have kept; I read books to my own children; and now we will share books with my grandchildren. ...Children's books stabilize me, they are my roots; they help me in times of stress. They help me connect to happy memories, to those I love, to the generations in my family. They provide comfort.

You Write For Me? OR, You're Right For Me.

All relationships have one law : Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when your there.

People can only love you as much as they love themselves.

Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

If all that I would want to do was to sit and talk to you...would you listen?

Just because someone grows up shouldn't mean that the people who helped him get that way no longer counted.

Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives.