Quotes About Connection

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

I used to believe that it was not possible to lose someone I loved without sensing it somehow, without feeling something shift. But it's not true. People can die, sometimes the closest people to us, without us noticing a thing.

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

I'm so tired of this notion that women only need to support women. Why can't we all support each other?

The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing.

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.

I loved the notion of why women don't tell each other the truth and why we find the friend who will tell us, 'You're not hearing back from the guy because he must have been called out of town.'

I'm very excited by the notion of very different people trying to help each other out.

I think if you're about to lose someone and you're lucky not to, that bond intensifies because the notion of that is never gonna go away.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

I just wanted to be a part of Notre Dame. The school and I have a great relationship.

There's something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and make it more present in our lives.

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Music is nourishment.

'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.

I love 'Nova nation. I love them.

I like Josh Hart. I've liked him since 'Nova.

It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.