Quotes About Connection

The girl was about to cry, which reminded me of the grown woman I had just left on the sidewalk also near tears. Jesus, there was no escaping them.

Forbidding as the school was, at least I had a new friend. Jeff and I hit it off right away. We were inseparable. It was one of those childhood friendships that was so natural and uncomplicated, we seemed to discover it more than we created it. I have no adult friendships like the one I had with Jeff. I am sure I never will. Once we slip on the armor of adulthood, we lose the ability to form that kind of naive, unqualified connection.

Sex is never between the lines. Between the sheets, yes, but not between the lines.

Between us lay all the moments when, instead of confiding wholly one in the other and placing our hearts on the line, we had settled for less. Between us lay routine and habit and the taking of one another for granted. Between us lay the years of our marriage. That those years had become a barrier instead of a lovely shared connection was a tragedy,

IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog. —Jack Kerouac Some of the Dharma

IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog.

The poetry of each age may be considered as vitally connected with, and as vividly reflective of, its character and progress, as either its politics or its religion.

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart.

Oh!" he answered smiling, "Mr. Murray! I am glad to see you. I have been with several of your relations; the good lady your mother was of great use to us at Perth.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

What you say about me, you're really saying about yourself.

Dick and Tot walked down the lane together, deep in a conversation of silence.

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

the things he hated most was élitism. We share in everyone else or forego ourselves. 'Hullo there, captain.

She looked like a woman you might jump a few lights to get home to.

There was this guy lying on the couch," Laila recalled. "I had no idea who he was. I just remember thinking, 'Uh-oh.' I had this feeling as if a bomb had dropped. I kind of knew from the second I saw him that I would either love him or hate him.

El sonido más solitario del mundo es el que producen otras personas haciendo el amor.

The loneliest sound in the world is other people making love.

You must always kiss as if kissing will be outlawed at dawn.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

You understand, my boy? I can't help you. And you can't help me. Nobody can help anybody.' 'I don't believe that.' 'The trouble with this world,' says LoBianco, 'is it has nothing to do with what people believe.

I believe we are most alive when we are being thought about by others who love us.