Quotes About Connection

It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.

For her part, she seemed totally unaware of how her eyes could meet mine and turn my tongue to leather in my mouth. No magic I possessed, no Skill, no Wit, was proof against the accidental touch of her hand against mine, nor could defend me against the awkwardness that overwhelmed me at the quirk of her smile.

Hold the cat. You'll feel better. I don't think so. He rubbed against my leg insistently. Hold the cat. I don't want to hold the cat. He reared up suddenly on his hind legs, and hooked his vicious little front claws into both flesh and leggings. Don't talk back! Pick up the cat.

How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?

Explanations had seldom worked between us. Trust had.

No. I wanted nothing of that. I sank myself deeper into the stronger current where all such outreaching mingled into a vast joining. Sometimes I thought it the birthplace of dreams and intuitions. At other times I thought of it as a repository of all the folk who had gone before us, and perhaps even those to come after. It was a place where sorrows and joys were equal, where life and death were just the stitches on each side of a quilt. It was nepenthe." p. 465

It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.

To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years

Love can exist without need

He is not my lover. He is far more than that to me, far more precious. I am the White Prophet and he is my Catalyst, and we are come here to change the course of time. I am here to see that Icefyre lives.

They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.

Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I've seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other herbs and always the loss of their pain made them less connected. Less human. And so it was with me. Every

Sometimes I feel I am two people, reaching after two different lives. Or rather, joined to you, I am a different person from who I am when we are apart. When we are together, I lose Ã¢â'¬Â¦ something. I don't know what to call it. My ability to be only myself.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

What you're looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without that person. Good times or bad. That having that person around makes whatever you're going through better, or at least more tolerable.

I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself." p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz:

And in that brief linking, I knew that the girl was dead.

Fitz, home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.

All memories are connected, and like a man's skin, they can heal. In time, left to themselves, those memories would have stopped hurting you. You may someday wish you could call up that pain.

You should know by now how easy it is to lose a person just by letting someone walk away from you.

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Men it is who think they can rule others' lives but have no bonds to them.

Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real

You and I, we are like buds grafted onto a tree. We can grow true to ourselves, but only so much as our roots will allow us