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Quotes About Connection

Why doesn't the fact that I'm human matter to human beings
~ Karen Traviss
Aliit ori'shya tal'din. Family is more than bloodline. —Mandalorian proverb
~ Karen Traviss
And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me.
~ Karen Traviss
Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.
~ Karen Traviss
Imagine if we all walked around looking at strangers and thinking, You could have been my son or daughter. Imagine.
~ Karin Evans
When someone gets you hot and bothered, turn on the prayer conditioner.
~ Karin Gillespie
I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter.
~ Karin Slaughter
She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.
~ Karin Slaughter
No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.
~ Karin Slaughter
Broken: Never underestimate the power of a shared history.
~ Karin Slaughter
His words hung between them, and Faith tried to pin down when exactly their relationship had gone from cooly professional to personal. There was something so kind about him under his awkward manners and social ineptness. Despite her best intentions, Faith realised that she could not hate Will Trent.
~ Karin Slaughter
Dogs are stupid," Rusty said. "This is a known fact. But a cat—you have to earn a cat's respect every single day of your life. You lose it and—" He snapped his fingers. "That's what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north.
~ Karin Slaughter
Your relationship with a person doesn't end when they die. It only gets stronger." He winked at her. "Mostly because they're not there to tell you that you're wrong.
~ Karin Slaughter
He sat on the bed beside Carter. He tried one-handed to press Carter's finger to the home button on the phone. Beau said, "Won't work when they're dead. You need a capacitance signal in your skin to activate the ring. Gotta have a heartbeat to make that happen.
~ Karin Slaughter
It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose.
~ Karin Slaughter
In that moment, Emily had desperately wanted her baby to be all right. Not out of duty. A child wasn't only a responsibility. It was an opportunity to love someone the way that she had never been loved. And for the first time in this whole shameful, humiliating, helpless process, Emily Vaughn knew without a doubt that she loved this baby.
~ Karin Slaughter
That's what love is, Sara, when there are so many things about you that you only want one person in the world to know.
~ Karin Slaughter
what she really wanted from him, needed from him, was to know that she could always pick up the phone and he would be there. That was all Lena had ever wanted from Hank. That was actually the one thing he had always given her.
~ Karin Slaughter
You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.
~ Karin Slaughter
I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter. I
~ Karin Slaughter
She hated the thought of needing people almost as much as she hated having to reach out to them.
~ Karin Slaughter
the easiest way for a man to get into your heart was if you imagined what he was like as a child.
~ Karin Slaughter
You don't kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.
~ Karin Slaughter
conversations, and not
~ Karin Slaughter