Quotes About Connection

Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.

how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears?

When she had first held Jacob in her arms and pressed her lips to his tender, fragile scalp, it had felt as though she were being brought back to life, like a wilting plant being watered.

there was something in your children that could bring out the child in yourself. Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.

She'd never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.

It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with him and wake up with him, to do really quite extraordinarily personal things together on a regular basis, and then, suddenly, you don't even know his telephone number, or where he's living or working, or what he did today or last week or last year.

Jimmy is looking adoringly down at Connie's dark head. What would it have been like to have a man love you like that? Would it have changed something fundamental in your psyche to wake up each morning knowing that you were loved, that someone wanted to touch your body even when it got all old and wrinkly?

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

She literally felt twitchy without her phone.

Jesus. She even knew Liam's name. How was that possible? She'd forgotten her very existence until thirty seconds ago. Liam looked over, aimed his stick straight at Cecilia and pulled the imaginary trigger. "Liam!" said Tess at the same time as Cecilia groaned, clutched her chest and buckled at the knees. She did it so well, for an awful moment Tess worried that she really was collapsing. Liam held the stick up to his mouth, blew on it and grinned, delighted.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. (plaque dedication on a park bench)

When you divorce someone, you divorce the whole family.

No, no,' said Sam. 'Of course not. I've got a good friend who

It was irresistible, like they were being tickled themselves. Their eyes met across the table, and at that instant, Rachel's laughter turned into a sob.

They didn't say anything for a few seconds, and then they both dissolved into the sort of helpless, wheezing laughter unique to women who had spent their school days together.

It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes—a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No

It was almost as though something interesting and unusual had happened to him and he'd forgotten to tell Cat about it until now.

No one will ever love me as fiercely as my mother did.

le hubiera leído el pensamiento.

It is just too much effort to be funny and entertaining and loving. It is just too much effort to talk, really.

She had joined a tai chi class in the park down the road. She was the only one under the age of seventy. Heather had never been the sort of woman to have girlfriends, but for some reason she fit right in to this elderly circle. "They make me laugh," she said. "And they don't demand anything from me.

Every time she managed to get him to eat something healthy she found herself deeply satisfied, her mouth virtually chewing along with his, as if some innate, biological need was being met.

Polyamorous. It means 'many loves.' If you're poly, you believe in having committed relationships with more than one person. My wife and I are both poly.