Quotes About Connection

The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will.

The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.

I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants went into shock when pulled up by their roots, and even uttered something indescribable, like panic, a drawn-out vowel only registered on special instruments. Still, I love their habit of constant return. I don't like cut flowers. Only the ones that grow in the ground.

The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person.

She slowed to pick her way through places where water was seeping up through the mats of dying grass. Rain tapping through the brilliant leaves the only sound. She stopped. The sense of something there, with her, all around her, swirling and seething with energy. How intimately the trees seized the earth. How exquisitely she was included. Patrice closed her eyes and felt a tug. Her spirit poured into the air like song.

Pollux's grandma had once told him dogs are so close with people that sometimes, when death shows up, the dog will step in and take the hit. Meaning, the dog would go off with death, taking their person's place. I was pretty sure that Gary had done this for Roland and then visited the store to let me know.

If I die, don't take this too hard, she counseled them, death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

How close the dead are. One song away from the living.

This statement tallied with Washington's often expressed view that citizens had to feel before they saw—that is, they couldn't react to abstract problems, only to tangible ones.

He felt at home in many places.

I remember how fascinated I was with his letters

they had genuine affection for Jack.

Parmalee and Senior had a remote relationship and seldom saw each other.

Early on, John and Laura must have spotted each other as kindred souls, especially when it came to religion.

His similarity to his father in thought and outlook is almost weird.

Sensitive to her delicate psychological state, he sent her gently whimsical letters.

His contact with Rockefeller and involvement in the University of Chicago followed soon thereafter.

Rockefeller was drawn to the church, not as some nagging duty or obligation but as something deeply refreshing to the soul.

As he grew more comfortable in his presence, he developed a powerful loyalty to him.

Rockefeller knew the name and face of each employee

Sometimes to touch us, God touches someone that's close to us. This is what opens our eyes to the fact there is a higher power than ourselves, whether we call it God or not.

If you fishin' for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your friend... But if you is lookin' for a real friend, then I'll be one. Forever.

He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way," Aunt Margaret said. "Your momma knows that." But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn't be expressed.

The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died. This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is.