Quotes About Connection

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.

For a while we talked about things I've forgotten now. Or maybe we were silent for a while, me sitting at the foot of his bed, him stretched out with his book, the two of us sneaking looks at each other, listening to the sound the elevator made, as if we were in a dark room or lost in the country at night, just listening to the sound of horses.

There are silences made just for us.

It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.

Dust and literature have always gone hand in hand.

Y qué amor puede sostenerse mucho tiempo si a una no la besan en la boca?

Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema. Vaya, ni siquiera con un movimiento poético.

That night I didn't sleep a wink, said Norton in her letter, and it occurred to me to call Morini. It was late, it was rude to bother him at that hour, it was rash of me, it was a terrible imposition, but I called him. I remember I dialed his number and immediately I turned out the light in the room, as if so long as I was in the dark Morini couldn't see my face. To my surprise, he picked up the phone instantly.

Uno tiene que conocer gente de todas las clases, a veces es necesario empaparse de realidad

We're two of a kind, that donkey and me, said Caridad in a dreamy voice. Foreigners in our own land. I would have liked to tell her she was wrong, to point out that in the eyes of the law, I was the only foreigner, but I kept my mouth shut. I put my arm gently around her waist and waited. Caridad might have been foreign to God, to the police and even to herself, but she wasn't foreign to me. I could have said the same for the donkey.

Ulazim u njihove snove. Ulazim u njihove najsramnije misli, u svakom sam drhtaju, u svakom gr?u njihovih duša, uvla?im se u njihova srca, ispipavam njihove najtemeljnije predodžbe, motrim njihove bezumne porive, njihova neizraziva ?uvstva, spavam u njihovim plu?ima ljeti i u njihovim miši?ima zimi, i sve to ?inim bez i najmanjeg napora, ne zahtijevaju?i to, ne mole?i ni traže?i, bez ikakve prisile, nagnan samo predanoš?u i ljubavlju.

They fucked until she was nothing more than a tremor in his arms.

Todos tenemos algún antepasado imbécil. Todos, en algún momento de nuestras vidas, encontramos el rastro, las huellas vacilantes del más pelmazo de nuestros antepasados, y al mirar ese rostro huidizo nos damos cuenta, con estupor, con incredulidad, con horror, de que estamos contemplando nuestra propia cara que nos hace guiños y muecas amistosas desde el fondo de un pozo.

Y no hicimos el amor. O tal vez ese "no hacer el amor" fue nuestra manera de hacer el amor.

I kept thinking about my father's stony plot of land and much later, when I'd lost touch with him, each time I went back to that barren place I thought about the buried pyramids, about the one time I'd seen him riding over the tops of the pyramids, and I imagined him in the hut, when he was left alone and sat there smoking.

Como dicen los gángsters, no es nada personal, Max. Por supuesto, en esa aseveración hay algo de verdad y algo de mentira. Siempre es algo personal. Hemos llegado indemnes a través de un túnel del tiempo porque es algo personal. Te he elegido a ti porque es algo personal

It's as if you were giving me a part of you," said Vanessa.

Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema.

Antes de salir la miraba, durante unos segundos, abandonada entre las sábanas, y a veces se sentía tan lleno de amor que se hubiera puesto a llorar ahí mismo.

First, the need to be near Liz Norton struck some time before he got back to his apartment in Madrid. By the time he was on the plane he'd realized that she was the perfect woman, the one he'd always hoped to find, and he began to suffer.

Y después de mucha plática y muchos cigarrillos Angélica y María se durmieron y yo apagué la luz y me metí en la cama y mentalmente le hice el amor a María otra vez.

I know you'll forgive my eccentricities, she said, after all we both read poetry.

Si osservano per un istante, senza sorridere, come due piccoli piranha che nuotano in una camera a vuoto assoluto. Poi Jan disse: «Mi piacerebbe leggere qualcosa di tuo».