Quotes About Connection

You should introduce me to your friend." Reacher stepped up and said his name and shook her hand. It felt like a dove's wing in a gorilla's paw.

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If I visit and he doesn't know I've visited, have I really visited at all? It's self-indulgent to come here just to make myself feel like a good wife.

The house makes me feel bad," he said. "You make me feel good. I only know how I feel.

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You know you've got a problem when baristas greet you by name. You know you've got another problem when it's the warmest social interaction of your day.

I'm just a-- I looked at Yoshiro. An unimpressive girl who doesn't want to battle ghosts and kill wraiths. There's only three things I want. To find my family. Dispel Neos. And to-- I stopped suddenly, and didn't know where to look. Yes? Yoshiro said. The third thing? To be with me, Bennett said.

I knew you liked him, Henry said. Ever since he tied your tie.

A message had been sent to EmmaVaile at an account I didn't recognize. It was from BennettStern at the same network. Four words: I'm grateful for you.

All love songs, no matter how eloquent or crude, ornamented or plain, in whatever language they are sung, say essentially the same thing. All love stories have but one meaning.

Myself I love a thunderstorm better than anything. Sometimes I will run to the top of the hill to whirl around and around on my Indian Rock in the wind, it is like a dance I can not stop. The smell of the lightning goes into your nose and down your whole body. Old Bess says if you get hit by lightning yet live you will have special powers, well I could use some of those. So I don't care if I get hit or not.

Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they'd never be able to hit any of these balls, they'd be simply immobilized by the force of it, by the awful force of our love.

Soy su hijo, soy su hijo, soy su hijo! Por eso es que me ha tratado de esta manera. ¡Soy su hijo!

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.

Until that moment, I only saw Jesus as the Son of God. I knew he had come down to earth, but that night for the first time it dawned on me: He understands me. He walked in my shoes! As a matter of fact, he was sort of a toogee. You know? His daddy — his earthly father — wasn't his real daddy. He slept in the straw as a child. He was ridiculed and abused. They chased him and tried to kill him.

Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.

Your tribe is always bigger than you think.

She kept looking away then back to me, as though at a nice surprise. This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.

She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time.

I knew he used to call the old man Saturday mornings to talk baseball or politics, trying to keep him from sinking into the marsh of incurious disapproval that swallows so many ancients.

I'd lived years without a woman to tell me small things. Her work went well and she wanted to say so, and I was the man who was listening. That fact swung open and light came in.

I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return.

She comforts my spirit and body as nothing ever has. That's a part of love, too. I also know I'm never as happy as I am when I'm with her.