Quotes About Connection

It was said he could charm anyone, just by walking through the room. It was said he was blessed with a special power. But my father was humble, and he said it wasn't that at all. He just liked people, and people liked him. It was that simple, he said.

But he liked to leave me laughing. This is how he wanted to remember me, and how he wanted to be remembered. Of all his great powers, this was perhaps his most extraordinary: at any time, at the drop of a hat, he could really break me up. T

If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So

You are a good dad," I say. "Thanks," he says, and his eyelids flutter a bit, as if he's heard what he's come to hear. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go. "So.

I think," I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, "that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great.

In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which

His eyes did not track when they were talking, and when he blinked, which wasn't often, she could count to three before his eyelids touched.

What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

daniel waters, generation dead

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

I'd get lost without the weight of you two on my shoulders.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

Every couple needs to argue now and then just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive.

You're my favorite person of all time.

Find her, protect her, spoil her, dance with her and never stop loving her or someone else will.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

A girl's first true love is her father.

A mother's and daughter's love is never separated.

While I sleep, I dream of you, and while I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.

Because when I look at you, I can feel it. And I look at you and I'm home.

You mean more to me than anyone in this whole wide world.

Listen with your heart. You will understand.

Yes, you'll be in my heart. From this day on, now and forever more.

Can you feel the love tonight? You needn't look too far. Stealing through the night's uncertainties, love is where they are.