Quotes About Connection

Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty, and her energy and her health- For a moment, think of his mother, Gabe couldn't continue speaking. He fell silent and choked back tears. Then he took a deep breath and went on, - and it didn't matter. We found each other. None of it mattered but that. You won't ever know what that's like, to love someone. In a way, I pity you. But I hope you starve.

When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.

The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an aching sensation. He seemed terribly weary. 'Call me The Giver,' he told Jonas.

The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.

Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.

It sure doesn't take long to start to love a kid.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Call me The Giver," he told Jonas.

Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.

she looked into the face of the soldier

Boy, said Anastasia, you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone. Well, said her father slowly, it just doesn't work that way. It just doesn't seem to work that way very often.

I mean, I wish I knew the right things to say to people. Sometimes I seem to just sit there.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. "And

Her name was Rosemary, The Giver said.