Quotes About Connection

She said every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.

Less than ten thousand Choctaw people actually made it here on the Trail of Tears, and they all married each other way back when, so there you go. We're all family somehow or other.

We've been stitched together at the heart since she was born. I can't breathe in a world where she isn't near.

We were young women with lives and husbands and children by the time we were brought together again. We chose not to interfere with one another. It was enough for each of us to know that the others were well….

Even the ramparts of reputation, and ambition, and social position couldn't erase the love of sisters, their bond with one another.

Via our FWP leaders, we have been instructed to deliver "no ivory tower writing" but to bring "the streets, the stockyards, and the hiring halls into literature." This admonishment bids us to accurately record our informants and to make them feel that they are critical to our mission.

The love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.

There's something magical about that time when your babies are small, when you're the center of their world, the person they love the most.

When we lose our stories, we lose ourselves.

When we have little else, our stories still have value.

Blessings aren't fully realized until they are passed along.

But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat.

The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.

No matter how much you want to cut your family out of your heart, you can't. The bond is born when you are born, like an organ in your body. There is no surgery to remove it. When it is diseased, you live with a dull ache telling you that something inside you is not right.

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I'm indebted to all of you who read these stories and also to the booksellers who sell them with such devotion. As Mr. Rogers once said, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Loads of gratitude are also due to the teams in art, design, production, marketing, publicity, and sales. Thank you for contributing your incredible talents. Without your work, stories would literally sit on shelves undiscovered and unread. You connect books to readers, and in doing that, you connect people to one another. If books can change the world, those of you who help bring them to the world are the change agents.

The music of old age is difficult to hear when it's playing for someone you love.

When the mind's been lost from the body, it can't always find the way home.

Lo que la cabeza no recuerda el corazón lo sigue sabiendo. El amor es lo más fuerte que existe. Más fuerte que todas las demás cosas.

sisters are friends as well. Sisters are special friends.

Aunque la vida nos lleve por diferentes caminos, el corazón siempre recuerda a donde pertenece.

rivers. We are born somewhere small and quiet and we move toward a place we cannot see, but only imagine. Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed.

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.