Quotes About Connection

He's Flint Your Tinder

He grabs hold of my wrist. I am shocked by the sensation of his skin warm against mine. 'Take care,' he says, and then smiles. 'It would be very dull to have to sit here for an entire day just because you went and got yourself killed.' 'My last thought would be of your boredom.

Now what?' 'We wait for the sun together,' he says, his gaze going to the hot blush of the horizon. 'And no one dies.' He sits with her as red turns to gold, as blue edges out black. He sits with her as grey creeps over Aslog's skin, and he does not look away from the betrayal on her face as she becomes stone.

Her fingers are cold against his flushed skin. It's nice. He hopes she won't take them away.

Against my shoulder she whispers, 'He's flint, you're tinder.

El amor no germina bien cuando se alimenta de dolor.

I like playing pretend with you.

Aren't you ever careless?' he asked. 'Always, with you.

It's you I love.'' he says. ''I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.

Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try.

He's flint, you're tinder.

I didn't think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.

Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home

When I'm with him, I feel like the hero of a story. Of my story. It's when he's not there that things don't feel right.

For you I am forever undone

Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.

He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he'd never see me again.

I knew little else, but I always knew you

I look into his eyes. His hand slides to my hip, as though he might pull me closer. For a dizzy, stupid moment, something seems to shimmer in the air between us. page 98

I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I feel as if you have carried it long before that.

I have heard that for mortals,the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear

And you." "I knew little else, but I always knew you.

For a moment,'' he says, ''I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me.'' I make a face at him. ''And what made you decide it wasn't? He grins up at me. ''They missed.