Quotes About Connection

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

RC blinked a couple more times and admired the freckles on either side of [Honey's] nose. He would have enjoyed connecting them dot-to-dot with a felt-tip pen. In his fantasy, he would discover the meaning of life spread across her cheekbones.

Do you believe love is a chemical reaction between two people?" "At first it is. Then, theoretically, it grows into something more. Or dies.

We're toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody's ever been young like we are right at this moment.

I like you so much," she says between kisses. And I can tell she wants to say love instead of like, not because she really does love me but because she just wants to say it. Of course, she can't, though. Not when I haven't said it first.

We all want something that sticks

Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides. "I can't dance like Cassidy," she says. "Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect.

Your eyes are a blue universe, and I'm just falling into them. No parachute. I don't need one because I'm never going to hit the ground.

Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you.

The whole magnetic thing about sex is you want the other person to want you.

Sin embargo, no me arrepiento de nada y no me siento amargado. Solamente me pregunto qué diablos pasaba dentro de sus cerebros, dentro de sus corazones, en aquellos días cuando debíamos acercarnos más y más. ¿Por qué todas querían un Sutter distinto al que empezó a salir con ellas? ¿Por qué ahora soy amigo de todas ellas y siempre es divertido cuando nos encontramos? ¿Por qué les agrado a las chicas pero no me aman?

His wife isn't attractive in any official way, but she is beautiful. It's awesome when she shows up at the store—her face beams, his face beams, and I'm sure my face beams just from watching the two of them.

See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread.

The whole magnetic thing about sex is you want the other person to want you. I mean, that's what separates us from the animals. That and haircuts.

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

When we first draw breath outside the womb, we inhale tiny particles of all that came before, both literally and figuratively. We are never merely individuals; we are never alone; we are always in the company of others, of the past, of history.

Once born, I inherited my family and all that came with it. I also inherited my nation and all that came with that; and I inherited my "race" and all that came with that too. In all three cases, the inheritance was far from inconsequential. Indeed, all three inheritances were connected, intertwined in ways that are all too clear today.

A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him,

How he would have liked to sit there beside her. Not talking—not doing anything. Not so much as touching her. He had never felt like that before. Someone he just wanted to be with.

Why read poetry if you don't want to fall in love?

And contrary to popular kindergarten doctrine, talk to as many strangers as possible.

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.