Quotes About Connection

I want to see this as well as be a part of it. I want to remember it for what it is. I am amazed by the love I feel for so many people. I am amazed at the randomness, the comedy, and the faith that brings us all together and makes us hold on.

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart. ...

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

He didn't want to say Let's just be friends or I hope we can stay friends, because that made friendship sound like a consolation prize, the blue ribbon to look at distractedly while someone else walks off with the gold cup. No, what he said was: I think you and I will be even closer, and that we will be even better together and more to each other if we're best friends, not boyfriends.

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted.

when you love someone, they become your reason.

We roll down the windows and crank the radio - we like the idea of our music spilling out over the whole neighbourhood, becoming part of the air.

The beliefs are almost always the same; it's just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believe in a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that.

The reason I couldn't talk to you was because I felt so bad for not talking to you.

We are writing ourselves, writing each other. I am words, and there you are to read them.

He was the corner that her eyes always strayed toward

Most of the time, I feel like a perpetual smudge. My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

We are breathing at the same pace, our chests rising and falling in unison. We have no need to whisper, because at this distance, all we need is thought.

Rest, v. and n. Rest with me for the rest of this. That`s it. Come closer. We`re here.

So I do what I always vowed not to do, and always found myself doing anyway. I throw "I miss you" into the breach. It even feels empty to me. Like I'm not saying it to the right person.

I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.

It's been said of me that I know how to love well, if any person alive can possess such knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us. It is all such a blessing—in the beginning, and the end, and the during.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It's probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be.

Distancia. Me dices que me alejo y yo balbuceo una disculpa, intento volver al presente. Pero hay algo que debería decirte: Incluso cuando me distancio, me preocupo por ti. Uno puede separarse de algo y seguir cuidando de ello. Si quisiera distanciarme por completo, me largaría. Pararía la conversación. Me marcharía de la cama. En su lugar, simplemente me abstraigo durante un momento. Miro en otra dirección. Pero mi mirada siempre vuelve a posarse en ti.

When I saw you today -- I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of the waiitng rushed through me in a second. That's something .... but I don't know if it's certainty.

We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.