Quotes About Connection

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

All the power in the universe means nothing if you can't be with the one you love.

nephew or niece

We rutted like cats.

You're not supposed to give people things unless you're sure they'd like to get them from you...[B]ut it goes deeper than that. when you give somebody something, you're saying out loud that you know they'd like to have you give -

I suppose you'll see her. You'll be disappointed at first. Then without being able to say how or when it happened, you'll find you've forgotten your disappointment, and the first thing you know you'll be telling her your life's history, and all your troubles and hopes.

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

In the end, all that really matters—all you really have—is the people you love. Not your job, not your career, not your awards, not your money, not your stuff. Just your people.

Molly and Teacher eyed each other in the manner of two young women who will never, ever, be great friends.

For all I know, some of my close friends could be dead. The only way to find out would be to call them up and talk to them about what's going on in their lives, and I never do that. I think this is true of many guys, even the ones who are not Humor Personalities: we do not view talking about our personal lives as an acceptable activity.

Some of my close friends could easily be deceased; this would not have a serious effect on our relationship.

Pay attention to the people you love. (Not later. Right now.)

and he held her, then, and she held him, just for a moment, the last moment they would ever have when they were both the same age.

Molly, at the rail, her wet hair matted down, her dress torn, watching Peter intently until she knew he saw her, then mouthing something... Fly, she was saying, Fly. "I CAN'T," Peter shouted moving his arms helplessly. "I CAN'T, MOLLY!

I see colors like you hear jet planes.

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it's cruel and wrong and we all know this.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.