Quotes About Connection

William was her one.

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you." ? Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

You know what Daddy would say when he saw Sylvie," Julia said in a quiet voice. Emeline and Izzy nodded, and Cecelia said, "Hello beautiful." —

She needed a backup to her mother, who

reimagining herself. She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love.

She could feel her friends' love pushing past her skin, into her body, and she cried too.

She was her father's rocket.

They were too showy, too public. Deep love between two people was a private, wordless endeavor,

When Sylvie was a child, she'd watched in amazement when friends, upset about a bad day at school or a slight from a boy they had a crush on, burst into tears at the sight of their mother. Their mother was their safe space, and so, with her, they felt every iota of their feelings.

love was the sea;

This is why we live. She and William held

sweep her sister's husband into her own heart.

Perhaps Sylvie's body had been ultimately unable to bear the distance between Chicago and New York.

He never would have reached this point, the middle, without her.

You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history,

We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

To be the rocket, she had to be with her sisters, and she had to set her daughter free.

He had been her person, and they'd passed books back and forth between them her entire life.

molecules dancing between them, and

William wanted to cup his hands again, to hold close his love for his wife, to hold close her love for him.

It occurred to him, for the first time, that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you.

Sylvie had talked about one-two punches, about how Charlie had died on the day Izzy was born, and Sylvie had clearly used her magic to somehow bring William his daughter on the day his heart broke. His wife was trying to save him, yet again.

Imagine that I'm a house, and when I find my great love, I'll become the entire world. Our love will show me so much more than I'll be able to see on my own.

She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the way her father had.