Quotes About Connection

like most people, they know one another inside out, and not at all.

They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time. By the end of the day, both realised that their lives had altered course.

And Rose knows that dictionaries will never be the same again. Dictionaries will be forever imbued, sanctified, significant, suggestive. They will not be just themselves, but this moment, these moments, being here, like this, in this place, her and him, in this now. She will always have this now, tethered to Collins and Chambers and the Shorter Oxford.

It seems to her that your family is at once utterly familiar and entirely unknown.

Books are the mind's ballast, for so many of us--the cargo that makes us what we are, a freight that is ephemeral and indelible, half-forgotten but leaving an imprint. They are nutrition, too. My old age fear is not being able to read--the worst deprivation. Or no longer having my books around me: the familiar, eclectic, explanatory assemblage that hitches me to the wide world, that has freed me from the prison of myself, that has helped me to think, and to write.

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem.

She saw the shadows of her children, young again, playing on that tree. And now to be here with him. You cross your own path.

Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. Later, I made an inventory of the room – a naming of parts: bed, chair, table, picture, vase, cupboard, window, curtain. Curtain. And I breathed again.

Gardening has this embracing quality in that it colours the way you look at the world.

There are some supremely agreeable moments in life that are best savoured alone -- the first barefoot step into a cold sea, the reading of certain books, the revelation that it has snowed in the night, waking up on one's birthday... And others the full wonder of which can only be achieved if someone else is there to observe.

When you prefer soup and the telly to a few hours with your lover there is something not quite right.

I've been like someone with a bad cold, all kind of shut up inside myself, not being able to hear other people. Just shouting out at them sometimes.

Her face, suddenly, contorts. The lips pinch and tighten. A hand crawls across the sheet. Lisa says, 'Are you all right?' 'No, says Claudia. 'But who is?

The urge to garden transcends social circumstance, which accounts for the allotment movement, of which more later, and the floral energy of small front gardens up and down the land.

Enough of Jasper. It should be clear by now how he fits into the scheme of things. Lover to begin with, sparring partner always, father of my child; our lives sometimes fusing, sometimes straying apart, always connected. I loved him once, but cannot remember how that felt.

Olharam-se. Maravilharam-se. E o amor era a capacidade de se maravilharem a cada instante.

Não há amor resistente à solidão.

Para mim, o casal perfeito é aquele onde há ternura e vontade de estar por vezes um com o outro. O amor destrói os casais. Não acredito no amor.

A amizade é assim, tem sempre dois lados e devemos realçar o melhor.

In sexual love we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of another's body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of an idea we have. The onanist may be an abject creature but in truth he is the logical expression of the lover. He is the only one who neither diguises nor deludes himself.

No animal has a heart quite like a dog's

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.