Quotes About Connection

Susan glanced down and smiled. 'Go away, Sieglinde,' she said, giving her a push. It's food, not me, you fraud!' Sieglinde regained her balance with the dexterity of a tight-rope walker. She sighed and whinnied under her breath continuously, while her paws took a firmer grip of Susan's knee.

Darling- I wonder if you realize how much I am counting on your coming to England, how much it means to me- it means all the world, and indeed my body shall be all, all yours, as yours will be all, all mine, beloved.... And nothing will matter but just we two, we two longing loves at last come together.

Why should this girl have crossed Stephen's path, or indeed Stephen hers, if it came to that matter? Was not the world large enough for them both? Perhaps not — or perhaps the event of their meeting had already been written upon tablets of stone by some wise if relentless recording finger.

our love's nothing but a drop in some vast sea of love—

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only love you.

Memory, the old room was haunted by it — a man dying with love in his eyes that was deathless — a woman holding him in her arms, speaking words such as lovers will speak to each other. Memory — they're the one perfect thing about me.

I know you by your willingness.

The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

May my existence change the world no more nor less than the gusting of wind or the proud growth of trees

Annie watched them all walk together, like sleepwalkers, she thought, jackrabbits trying to outrun them. The two ends of the line pulled in to form a semicircle, a giant net of humanity. *

And it wasn't as if she could talk about it with Samuel, couldn't even imagine talking about it. Eventually she saw sex as part of being a wife.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." —Luciano de Crescenzo

He wasn't an introvert, as he loved his family and his few close friends like Ben Kilpatrick,

Well, call me as soon as you can and tell me what's going on. Do you need me to come down there?" Sure, like she needed to stick a couple dozen earring hooks in her eyeballs.

Once, she had ridden her bicycle into a fence just because he had happened to drive past and wave at her.

She'd forgotten how dogs could reach in and grab hold of a person's heart.

I never stopped loving you. Even with everything between us, some part of me always loved you.

We also need to think all year long about people around us who might need something happy in their world.

The barn was warmer than he would have expected, especially with the air compressor going to power the tools, and soon he was down to his T-shirt. Before she started painting, she had taken off the sweater she wore, but it wasn't until he took a break and looked up from connecting two boards that he saw the message on it: Wake up Smarter. Sleep With a Librarian.

This was the important part of her life, she thought as she headed toward Currant Creek Valley. Her family, her friends, the people she cared about in town.

Charlie gave Jacques a tentative pat or two as if he hadn't been around animals very often. Too bad, she thought. In her experience, kids were generally a little more responsible and a little less self-absorbed if they had another creature depending on them.