Quotes About Connection

You can't ever leave me," he heard himself say. It was the look. The look that he couldn't possibly find anywhere else. The look that told him that he was the center of this man's world and would remain so.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

If I want a fucked with HEA, I'll go outside and talk to people.

You can boil down all interactions to two categories: ones that grow love and ones that diminish it. Choose love.

We really become one—we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor—freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor- freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

Loving my son has helped me to love myself more.

Upon the streets a kitten's mew and beggar's shoe are calling and the voiceless ask to borrow yours so sweet and always falling. — Awaken, Love

My grandmother had pale hands that looked like sturdy veins. She wrote poetry, too, and sang. Though she knew few lovers, I hope here breasts were admired as mine are two silver deities two shining steeples giving testament to the sky. — And So to Receive You

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

How did our thoughts affect our reality and interact with the world on a quantum level?

Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use.

sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say and all i can not ask

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

Home. It's where we come from. Who we are.

Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

Do you think you and Sorel will be together forever?" "Of course. Either in each other's company, as we are now, or separate and in each other's world. One takes on others as family and continually reshapes that meaning—family—but you do not break blood ties. We may not wish to live together at all times, but we will always be with each other.

What began with fury has become a decades long pursuit in search of meaningful responses to these political and philosophical questions: What is family? How do we live inside our power and at the same time act responsibly? How do we build community? How do we connect authentically across gender, ethnicity, and class lines?

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

Sexy means loving someone you do not know.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.