Quotes About Connection

the great theater of belonging.

It is rare in Mexico to meet someone who has no family connection to the US.

just ten steps from one country to the other, a door in the wall

in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship

Fascinated to know more, I joined them at breakfast

A further detail: this gringo writer was self-supporting and had no connection to the American embassy or any foreign organization.

We're all in this together.

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.

Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I ride home in the cab or wait for an appointment. I want all of this -- everything and everyone -- to stay with me.

Thinking so, a great wave of feeling swept through Clare. A feeling which was neither of the body nor the mind, but something between the two. An inconvenient feeling. Not only had she fallen in love with Ralph Schuyler, but she also loved him and everything about him with a passion..

He kissed her, laid her down on the bed, lay down beside her and, tenderly and slowly and gently, took her, alternating between the two tracks open to him, before finally spilling himself into her mouth, which he then kissed again.

Then he took her, and it seemed to O that it had been so long since he had that, subconsciously, she realized she had begun to doubt whether he really desired her any longer, and in his act she saw proof of love.

there's one thing anyway I want you to tell her, and tell her right away, and that is that I'm in love with her." "Is that true?

It was not the caress of her lips the length of him was looking for, but the back of her throat.

Ele não queria se separar dela. Quanto mais a entregasse mais ela pertencia a ele. O fato de oferecê-la era mais uma prova , e devia ser para ela também, de que ela lhe pertencia; só se pode dar aquilo que se tem.

It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let's leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

Covek ne voli zato sto zeli da ucini dobro, ili da pomogne, ili da zastiti nekoga. Ako tako postupamo, posmatramo svog bliznjeg kao puki objekat, a sami sebe dozivljavamo kao velikodusne i mudre osobe. To nema nikakve veze s ljubavlju. Voleti znaci ostvariti zajednistvo s drugim i otkriti u njemu bozansku iskru.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.