Quotes About Connection

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Your credo goes further than you realized: walk on, yes, but don't walk past people who need you. Uncurl yourself so you can see them and respond.

I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.

I do what I have always done. I reach across and bring the worlds together.

Anyway, it wasn't that flavor of love. She could leave and carry it with her. Time would not put a dent in it, nor distance snuff it out.

He smiled sadly, then placed his hand around mine so we were holding the book together. "I believe that - with everything I have," he said, holding my gaze. He kissed the edge of the book because he could not kiss me.

Love is not a disease.

Walk on, yes, but don't walk away from people who need you.

Tess had thought her grandmother, somewhat poetically, as having come unbuttoned from time.

Walk with me—I won't let you fall.

Tess had been unaware of leaving anything behind, but to hear Jacomo tell it, he'd played a long, slow game of connect-the-dots, and each dot had been a kindness, farm chores, laughter, a story told. She'd passed through the world, and the world had remembered.

walk on, yes, but don't walk past people who need you. Uncurl yourself so you can see them and respond.

He chuckled into my hair, enjoying this. I loved him terribly just then, how he puzzled through obscure scholarship and reveled in ideas, never mind that he'd called my mind hell.

You are all that is left of Lynn. Her own people won't even say her name. I... I value your continued existence." I could not speak. He had pierced me to my very heart.

I'd found my people and they weren't even mine.

of love. Yes, that was it: he thought I meant to proposition

I was a stranger in this family. I always had been.

I would carry my home with me, out into the world, as I looked for others to bring into it.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

Remember why you fell in love in the first place.

He was loved. He loved in return. Oh, what a man could accomplish when empowered by such knowledge.

She wasn't sure she could breathe without him.

What's your story, dress?" Charlotte whispered. "Where'd you come from and why'd you come looking for me? One orphaned girl seeking another?