Quotes About Connection

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

That's when a woman finds herself--when she's in love. I don't care if she is old or fat or homely or prosy. She feels that little flutter under her ribs and she drops from the tree like a ripe plum.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does

You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.

The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?

We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen is an attempt to convey a message. Everything the child does says something to the person who is willing to take the time to listen carefully.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.

inside or the outside. I touched paper. I spread

Perhaps this is the basis of friendships, I do not know. Each man seeks in another that part of himself which is missing. Thus do people make themselves more whole.

Magick, in essence, is the ability to communicate to the universe what you want in an effective way, so that the universe can then respond and create what you desire.