Quotes About Connection

All of us have our wires crossed and crisscrossed so many times it's impossible to untangle the mess. It really does seem like the entire human race might as well be conversing with hand gestures and grunts, for all the success we're having.

Here I've been telling him things in my head for weeks, writing long, frenzied missives to him I know I'll never send, and now that I have him less than two feet away, I'm struck dumb. Fantastic.

The right song can change everything.

You think you've disappeared, and then someone comes along and says, 'I see you. I want you.'" "Yes," I whisper, glad she understands. "It's crack," she says, smiling. "Pure fucking crack.

Every now and then, though, it feels like we're trying to rekindle our neglected friendships with an old ritual that's lost its sparkle.

If I cannot have you in this life then I will wait for your next, and I will find you again, this I vow.

People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership.

I always thought of being together as the end of the work. Turns out it's where the work starts.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present,

Rejoice in what you have. Power, wealth, fame, they are ghosts! They are like the breeze, impossible to hold. There is no grand destination. Every path ends at the Last Door. Revel in the sparks one person strikes from another." She huddled into her cloak of rags. "They are the only light in the darkness of time.

There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.

just seeing him standing there made a smile run through her clear down to her toes.

I love you more than life itself." There was no way she could doubt his words, because he was opening his eyes to her and letting her glimpse his soul.

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I've always loved you, Adriene. I just didn't know it until I saw you. - Blake Garrett

They were a family. Her mother said that all the time, and then she would pick up Eddie and pull Adria close to her in a hug at the same time. If Daddy was there, he'd put his arms around them all and make what he called a family sandwich with his children in the middle.

But love was like a candle, he had told her once. No matter how many candles you light from the first candle, the flame never goes smaller unless the wick is faulty.

I only want to hold you if you want me to hold you.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.

I felt untethered. A man stepped into my life that day and grounded me.

I see you in the library. The way you love the books.

Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think

All over the world, people are looking at the same stars, the same moon, the same sun, every day. Somehow, I didn't feel so isolated when I thought of it that way.