Quotes About Connection

How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?

if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

She belonged to me, He said simply. She was , you know, all the things I wasn't. And I was all the things she wasn't. She could paint circles around anyone; I can't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. He lifted his outstretched palm and curled his fingers. Her hand, he said. It fit mine.

In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You don't love someone because they're perfect...You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

You saved me, I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. I had to, he said. So you could save me back.

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to meet. But there are one or two that you are tied to, and spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.