Quotes About Connection

It hurts that I can be so full of him, when he's so empty of me.

I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding, and failing, and succeeding.

Desearíamos poder mostrarles el mundo mientras duermen. Así no tendrían ninguna duda de cuan similares, cuan confiados, cuan sorprendentes y vulnerables somos todos.

Even though I was turned on and warm and with him…I thought to myself, I'm missing something.

It's hardest when I'm by a computer. Such a brutal portal.

This is the hard part about having friends that I feel no attachment to-I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

If you live with someone all your life, you can tell when you are annoying them. Their face just shuts down. Their words sound almost mechanical, because they are reining in all the other emotions.

Incluso cuando la mente descarta la historia de amor, hay ocasiones que el cuerpo tarda en captar el mensaje.

The way she includes me, the way she takes this total stranger and makes her feel a part of this world, makes me care about her even more. It's one thing to be love-worthy when you are interacting with your boyfriend; it's another when you act the same way with a girl you don't know -A

With the right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day. But it helps to have it late at night.

I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed.

There are friends; but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

Our kisses were seismic.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.

But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

Our kisses were seismic. When seen by the wrong person, they could destroy us. When shared with the right person, they had the power of confirmation, the force of destiny.

It's a terrible thing to not feel missed.

I don't want to be anywhere else, with anyone else. I don't want to be anyone else. I just want this, which is what I have.

With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should've known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

He is amazed that while there are some people you can see every day and not say a word to, there are other people whom you can see once a year __ or once a decade, or once a life __ and say anything.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel -A

But this is the real thing, the hug that let's you feel held.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possibly. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be -A