Quotes About Connection

When I was still a piccanin she tutuzela'd me on her back, a back-to-front kangaroo. Snug in the hollow of her back, I felt her humming and singing seep into me." (from "Blood Orange: A Novel" by Troy Blacklaws)

Hello, Ben. I'm your cousin Jacen." "I know you." You went away when I was two. Did you find it? "Some of it" "So you're going back?" "No. What I haven't found, I doubt I ever will." ?Jacen and Ben

And Jaina hears him whispering to her in her dreams, telling her that no one you love ever really has to die--if you don't want them to...All you have to do is hold a place for them in your heart.

Does your heart keep swelling to make room for all the loves you have through life, until it swells so big it bursts, and you die?

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.

I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.... It's like Tiffany's.... Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty...

When you interact with someone repeatedly over time, it changes you. That's why what you watch on TV or read or see in magazines is so critical. So watch what you watch. Be careful with whom or what you are interacting. These recurrent interactions change your cells. They change your soul. They change your countenance.

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.

She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

A human being is a part of a whole called by us the universe.

During the practice you transform your own body into nectar that feeds all beings,

Callum's pull is irresistible now. He needs him. Adam is falling desperately, physically, finally in love, and suddenly it feels like a very long way to fall. Please catch me, he thinks. Please be there when I land.

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

Winter glanced over at Moon, for the nine thousandth time that day,

Thorn gripped her claws tighter. "Sunny. You're my daughter.

He felt an almost unbearable longing to press himself against her scales and fall asleep with her star-speckled wings over his.

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon,

I volunteer," Clay said. "I'm a world champion at sitting on my friends.

Ow!" he yelped, but he didn't fight her off as she twined her tail with his and wrapped her wings around him.