Quotes About Connection

Fiecare persoana este o posibilitate. Sentimentalii incurabili simt cel mai acut asta, dar chiar si pentru altii, singurul mod de a nu se da batauti este sa vada fiecare persoana ca pe-o posibilitate.

I want to tell Rhiannon all about it. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love -A

I know our nakedness means something. I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it is a form of craving. This is what we look like when we are completely open to each other. This is where we go when we no longer want to hide -A

If you stare at the center of the universe there's a coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender -A

I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers.

And at Dack's party- it was like this. Like you had all the time in the world, and you wanted us to have it together. I loved that. It was like- well, it was like you'd climbed up that tree and found me there at the top. And we had that together.

curl into each other like apostrophes within a quotation mark as they talk. I realize that two years is not a long time.

I felt love. Right there, in the kitchen. And I felt relief.

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 loves sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. 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.

And this is what happened. We both took it as an opportunity to peel the wallpaper from our lives. The only thing I kept out were the photographs of my friends and family, placed on a wall with photographs of your friends and (less so) family on the other end, as if they were meeting for the first time, still too shy or wary to mingle.

I notice you. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

I must dive back into the festivities. I must swim within the conversations, swim from gift to gift, wish to wish. Some people swim to get somewhere. Others swim to stay in shape, or to get faster. Right now, I'm going to swim so I won't drown.

It allows me to understand the strength it takes not just for A to be human, but for all of us to be human, if we want to be important not just to friends, but to strangers.

This is weird. I knew it would be weird, and it is weird, and I'm telling myself that of course it's weird, but soon it will go back to being something less weird. I know I spent tonight with a girl I'd never met before. But despite that, I still felt like I knew her instantly. Because A was A. It may have been a different body, a different voice, a different size and height. But when she looked at me, it was A. When she talked to me, it was A. How I felt--it was A.

You are not as messed up as I am.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

I want to see you, whoever you are. And I want you to see me, whoever I am. All or nothing. Now or never.

What we're going to do is be there for each other. We are going to be honest and we are going to share our lives and we are going to make mistakes, often with each other's feelings. But we are going to be there. Day in, day out. Because I don't want you to be my date, A. I don't want you to be in my life and back out of it. I want you to be my constant. That, to me, is the whole point of love -Rhiannon

I want to tell Rhiannon all about it. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it. The enormity rises within me. The universe nods along to the songs.

Sé que esta desnudez significa algo. Sé que esta desnudez es señal de confianza, que es señal de deseo. Así es como somos cuando nos abrimos el uno al otro completamente. Aquí es adonde venimos cuando no queremos seguir escondiéndonos

I reach out my hand to say I'm sorry. He takes it, but gives nothing else away.

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember I am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.