Quotes About Connection

One love, one heart, one destiny.

I want you to stay with me." "So do I." "Is that what you said in Arabic?" "It was close," she said. He waited for the rest. "It's just an old Bedouin saying." "Give me the rough translation." "I would not trade you for a thousand goats." Lucas laughed.

GIs were good for a Hershey's bar.

Though they have not the capacity to reply, I refuse to believe that our pets have no comprehension

Rebecca West would not be a passing fancy; she would assume a leading role in his life—he could feel it in his bones—and was he ready for that?

Relativity, he reflected, was simple compared to the mysteries of Eros.

The moment Lucas stepped beside her, she felt as if her shelter were complete. The canopy might ward off the sun, but it was having Lucas at her side that made her feel protected, fulfilled . . . loved. She glanced up at him, and though she saw that his tie was still askew, she resisted the urge to straighten it. There would be a lifetime to indulge such impulses.

THE BERING STRAIT, 1918 "Sergei, do not die," the girl said, turning around in the open boat. "I forbid you to die." She had hoped, in vain, that her voice would not falter. When she tried to reach out to him, he pulled away, still holding on to the tiller with dead-white fingers.

She told me her real name but insisted that I call her by an American name. This beautiful and innocent girl on the other side of the world insisted that I call her Sally. It was depressing.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief?

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are dispensable.

not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.

The difference is this: You're lonely when you have something to share but no one to share it with. You're lost when you have nothing to share, no matter with whom you live. Of course, you can be both lonely and lost, but of the two, lost inflicts the greater pain.

We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us

Boy-meets-girl has always been an irreducible convention that occurs early in the telling, to be followed by the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of love.

When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart.

Whenever I feel that people aren't smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello.

We do it for the fun and the fact it makes us feel closer to loved ones both living and dead.

Acaso durmiendo es cuando más cerca estamos de Dios.