Quotes About Connection

I'm yours — you know it.

Elle se leva dès qu'il fut sorti, s'approcha de Gatsby, leva son visage vers lui, l'embrassa sur les lèvres. — Je vous aime et vous le savez, murmura-t-elle.

Then for a moment they faded into the sweet darkness so deep that they were darker than the darkness, so that for awhile they were darker than the black trees- then so dark that when she tried to look up at him she could but look at the wild waves of the universe over his shoulder and say, 'Yes, I guess I love you too.

For a full minute, our bowels were one with the bowels of the earth--like some nightmare attempt to attach our naval cords again and jerk us back to the womb of creation. -Cecelia Brady describing the earthquake

He put his arms around her, enclosing her completely as if he didn't want even the intangible to escape.

Il lui parlait, et ses phrases étaient comme de petites lettres qu'il lui aurait écrites, car, une fois qu'il les avait prononcées, elles mettaient un petit moment à l'atteindre.

Amory [softly, battle lost]: I love you. Rosalind: I love you--now.

Amory: Darling girl. [They kiss. Another pause and then she seizes his hand, covers it with kisses, and holds it to her breast.] Rosalind [sadly]: I love your hands, more than anything. I see them often when you're away from me--so tired; I know every line of them. Dear hands! [Their eyes meet for a second and then she begins to cry--a tearless sobbing.]

This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

It was touching to see them together - it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.

I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does not exist but that only these characters exist, and, however pretentious that remark sounds....it is an absolute fact---so much so that their glees and woes are just exactly as important to me as what happens in life.

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these.

being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only good, warmed by its only lights.

forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath

So he waited, listening for a moment loner to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

Oh, it's so hard to write you what I really feel when I think about you so much; you've gotten to mean to me a dream that I can't put on paper any more.

Et quand j'ai vu ses lèvres hautaines s'éclairer d'un sourire, j'ai serré le bras davantage pour qu'elles se rapprochent des miennes.

Isn't it funny and lonely being together, Dick? No place to go except close.

There was some element of loneliness involved- so easy to be loved- so hard to love.

I love you, and that's the beginning and the end of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfsheim." Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.

One thing I liked about Mason: he said things. I mean, I thought about a lot of things, but I never actually said them. Out loud. I turned away from him, gave a kick under the covers to show my irritation.

I love the way he wears his face, tough and closed to outsiders, but open to me