Quotes About Connection

Come away with me now, sweet tease, and we will pleasure each other all the night long. We will strip off these masks, and with them rid ourselves of all inhibition. You do not yet know me, but I will soon know your every delectable inch, taste your nectar, explore your most intimate, womanly secrets. I will take you where you have never been, touch you in ways you have never been touched. Until you weep with the joy of it.

I've wanted this for so long. Emmaline thought that a lovely thing to say. We barely know each other. No. We've known each other forever, my dearest one, always known the other of us was out there somewhere in the world, waiting. We only just happened to meet today.

I threw my arms around him. "I yearn only for you." Quinton gave a self-conscious shrug and an embarrassed laugh. "I feel the same way about you and I'm sorry I'm  .  .  . being an ass. Also, I suspect you just wanted to use 'yearn' in a sentence.

A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen

He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer.

T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.

That was how you lost people, a little carelessness and they just slipped through your fingers.

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)

She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing in the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect.

Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds. Everything was connected. Everything in the whole world.

It turned out that love was everything after all 

The kid looked up from her wampum and stared inscrutably at her and then, for the first time since Tracy bought her, Courtney smiled. A beatific sunbeam of a smile. Tracy beamed back, a bubble-burst of mixed emotion – ecstasy and agony in equal, confusing measure inside her – rising in her chest. Jesus. How did parents manage with this kind of stuff on a daily basis? She found herself blinking back tears.

Oh, how he missed his sister. Out of everyone, the legions of the dead, the numberless infinities of souls who had gone before, it was the loss of Ursula that had left him with the sorest heart.

Really, every time a person said good-bye to another person, they should pay attention, just in case it was the last time. First things were good, last things not so much so.

Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.