Quotes About Connection

I loved you for everything.

We didn't have much in common, but I thought that being gay in common would be enough.

Twenty feet away. Even in the crowded hallway,there is something in her that radiates out to me

My mother sewed my name into all my underwear. But, really, it was another boy's name I was ready to sew into my heart.

Man kann Worte schenken, aber nicht wegnehmen. Und wenn Worte geschenkt und empfangen werden, dann sind sie etwas Gemeinsames.

Esto es lo que no admitimos sobre primeros besos: una de las cosas más gratificantes de ellos es que son la prueba, la prueba real, de que la otra persona nos quiere besar.

That has to be what love is--seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.

I am reminded how households with only two people have a different kind of gravity than others. We need the background noise, because otherwise the burden is entirely on us.

I wanted to like her and I wanted her to like me and that was more want than I had saddled myself up for in many a moon.

To be loved by God is to be loved for who you are. To love God is to place no boundaries on who you love...Whether or not I believe in the God of my ancestors, I see God in everyone.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. Your memories will be my most lasting impression.

My identity walks the wires for me, all around the world. The body is now the afterthought. The birthplace, not the home.

This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.

You shouldn't have venture deep down in order to get love.

I truly don't understand any of this,' I confessed. She stayed standing, facing me. 'I wish I could help you there,' she told me. 'But I can't.

Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you're there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you've been outside the whole time.

But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.

I can tell there are lots of thoughts she's considering, but I have no idea what they are. Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.

David Levithan

I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

So finally, as a pair of twentysomething men passed by holding hands, Austin said, Hey, that could be us in ten years. And Hugo said, Or ten months. And Austin said, Or ten days. And Hugo said, Or ten minutes. And Austin said, Or ten seconds. Then they each counted to ten, and held hands for the rest of the day.

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I've never felt before. A closeness that isn't merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we've only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging -A

Rhiannon finds me like that, in the selfless reading space that the mind loans out.