Quotes About Connection

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

How is it we can do those things, things that feel permanent, like even if the relationship ended, those feelings would still be there? It makes me not believe in anything, in any feeling, in any profession, in any love at all. It's all just bullshit. Just hormones and lust and needs and filling people's gaps, the holes in their souls. We all just use each other, don't we? Nothing is what it seems.

Pero es que sucede algo cuando abrazas a alguien o te abrazan a ti. Hace que te sientas mejor. Aleja esas indeseables sensaciones de no valer nada.

The human desire to not be alone in the world is powerful. More powerful, perhaps, than reason or conscience or fear.

Há coisas que talvez tenham de ser verbalizadas, mas não necessariamente ouvidas pelo outro. P102

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

She waited for one of them to say something that might facilitate a more in-depth conversation, something that might bridge the distance between them; but neither man spoke.

They looked at each other. "I don't understand it. But I know who sent it." Maddie Singer's thumbs and her iPhone were often incompatible. She claimed she'd been a lot more comfortable with her smartphone before it got so smart.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Everything is octopusied.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Church doors are open, but social media is crowded.

Coffee connects me to the world, wine disconnects me".

GOD is connection, USB is distraction.

Happiness is when someone laughs with you and doesn't laugh at you.

Love is not blind, it is not deaf and it is not cheap.

Poetry doesn't speak, but you listen.

The plane has wings, but it doesn't fly alone.

The plane passes close to the sky but fails to land on the clouds. The only way to get closer to God is through charity.

Your gaze reveals your love only to those who know your soul.

Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.

I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.