Quotes About Connection

It is very hard to prevail where you are not, in the deepest and most intimate and forgiving of ways, loved. It is very hard to prevail in any case but without this love, it is close to impossible.

The curiosity of the book was that, as you held it, and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing, which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook, you stored it, or deleted it; you felt no sentiment or particular ownership.

In marriage, one plus one is more than the sum of two. But sometimes in a marriage, one plus one is less than the sum of two.

The only love that matters is the absolute unreasonable unqualified and unearned love - the love you'd absorbed into the very pores of your being as a child, scarcely aware of your good fortune.

It is the easiest tie to break—my Friend consoled me—the tie that was badly frayed to begin with.

loving him more than her life, her life she'd have tossed into the air confident he'd catch it, yes and

Because nothing between human beings isn't uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

In love there are two things—bodies and words.

the terrible intimacy of pregnancy

you've glanced at me, and through me, dear Dr. K——, upon more than one recent occasion, no more recognizing your Angel than you would have recognized a plate heaped with food you'd devoured twenty-three years ago with a zestful appetite

A dog's life is a speeded-up version of your own. After a while, you can hardly bear to be a witness.

The curiosity of the book was that,as you held it,and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing,which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook,you stored it,or deleted it;you felt no sentiment or particular ownership. You could not see it on a shelf or a table,you could not admire its design. In effect,it had been Deleted.

This web of intricate connections

Sleeping with another person is a responsibility, a trust: you must not intrude into the other's dreaming.

I stand before you, naked as clear water. To be with you, in blood and soul into your fire storm. Even at your darkest when your heart is a Black Forest, I stand with commitment .

When her lover had loved her she'd been beautiful. When she'd been beautiful her lover had lover her. It was a simple proposition, a seemingly tautological proposition, yet it resisted full comprehension.

For there is the fear—a wise fear, I think: that if we speak just once to the dead, the dead will cleave to us in their desperate loneliness and never leave our sides.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul-- Joyce Carole Oates

What saved us from becoming hard-nosed or callous was that we really liked each other, while remaining totally mystified by each other.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Daughters, he told her as they dug. Nothing better than a good daughter.

How does it happen that a person with whom you have shared your most intimate moments—greatest love, greatest pain, joy, also grief—can become a stranger?