Quotes About Connection

He didn't want the friends of the different stages of his life to meet. Their encounter would almost be between different facets of himself, face to face.

pWhen your parents pass away, you have no home at all - only your children do.

When your parents pass away, you have no home at all - only your children do.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

O grupo é o começo de tudo aquilo que um homem só, fechado na sua prisão, nunca pode realizar.

And throughout all, Trudi wove the assurance...that - once someone had been in your life - you could keep that person there despite the agony of loss, as long as you had faith that you could bring the sum of all your hours together in one shining moment.

Because of the people in history, Trudi felt a far stronger link than ever before to the people in her town, and from all this grew new stories, which she told to Eva and her father, and to Frau Abramowitz who listened to every word and sighed, "Trudi, you and your splendid imagination.

Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you knew they were there. Unless you told.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.

Boy, have I been there," said Harriet. She patted August on the shoulder. The mouse princess looked surprised at the sympathy.

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

There's always that one person that will always have your heart You never see it coming cause you're blinded from the start Know that you're that one for me, it's clear for everyone to see Ooh baby, you will always be my boo

As children, in haystacks, caught in a storm, we thought: Someone can see us. We are all seen.

There is no one to laugh with about his cookies and milk, to gush about the fact that he is eighteen like I am eighteen only he seems much older.

My father and I look up and then at each other. I can feel my heart separate from the rest of my body. I want to hand it to frothing old man in front of me and say, take it. It's yours, because it has always been yours, if not for your sperm, your food, and the school fees that you pay on my behalf, then who and where would I be? Nothing. I am because you are. I say nothing. Each word I search for flies from my brain before I can send it off my tongue.

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

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You are angry Jason. You, are angry. I get that. I get it. I mean without family who the fuck are we?

Khalil Gibran says a soul mate is the guardian of the other person's solitude.

I have faith that the shift in my physicality is crucial to the growth in my spirituality. When one sense weakens, another grows strong.

As the soil was renewed, so one's feelings seemed to change, uniting in some inexplicable way with a distant age when the eyes and ears of men were more alert to sights, sounds, and fine distinctions.