Quotes About Connection

Unconditional love embraces duality as one.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today

in the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

My daughter,' came naturally from the lips of Rachel Halliday; for hers was just the face and form that made 'mother' seem the most natural word in the world.

He closed his eyes, but still retained his hold; for, in the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Paco had a way with plants.....Sara believed that whenever he walked under a tree it grew a new branch to shade him.

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

People don't fall in love with each other because it's convenient. They fall in love because they fall in love, and that's it.

Because if you love someone, you have to be brave and tell them. Don't let them go. And if you say no I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to convince you I'm right. I promise. I won't leave you alone. Because it's not about who's whats or wheres or anything. We should be together. The other stuff doesn't matter. That's all.

It was completely still, not a sound within or outside. As if it was just the two of them, nothing more in the world, in this room alone.

She didn't realise it, for a long time, and it wasn't until they were having dinner one evening that he said something that she found funny and she looked at him and thought, Yes. I know you. I know you

She knew him so well, the amused, detached tone of his voice, the scroll of his ear, his eyes, his bony frame. Someone whom she always wanted in the room, someone who saw the world the same way, and it had always been like that.

To Felicity, she saw now. Love was something that only really happened within the pages of a book. For long periods of Elle's life, she'd thought that was true, too. But it wasn't. It was you and him, the two of you, a team to face the world together, and that was what she'd been looking for all those years; not an idol, or someone to lust after, or someone to fix her

He'd spent enough time in this house, getting into all their business. The way they pulled you all in, all of them, without stopping to ask you if you wanted to - It was crazy, charming, discombobulating.

We had loads in common but we just didn't see the world in the same way.

To listen with an open heart and ask questions to better help us understand the other person is a spiritual exercise, in the truest sense of the word.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.