Quotes About Connection

All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyone mentions New Hampshire, that squirrel is always what I think of. I bet I've thought about that squirrel a million times.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

If you want people to flock to art, lure them with pancakes.

From what people who are on Facebook say, it's a colossal waste of time, but what I don't get is why they're always on it anyway. . . .

That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible?

I covered his thumbprint with my thumb and considered for the first time that Papa might have been more than just old pictures - old, repeated stories.

I'll give you what I learned from all this," he said. "Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past - connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.

Joined together, they made a kind of centaur—half bastard, half bitch. Dottie would have laughed out loud at that.

Don't write stories for teenagers or any other group," she advised. "Write them for yourself and let the audience that needs them find them.

If a book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past—connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.

Making the decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

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What solitary child hasn't wished for a twin, Mr. Birdsey? Hasn't imagined that a double exists somewhere in the world? It's a hungering for human connection— another way of sheltering oneself against the storm.

Your children are not your children,'" he said. "'They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Life is a river, she repeated. Only in the most literal sense are we born on the same day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past--connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experimentally.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

the body of Christ is not fundamentally about authority, but relationships.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.