Quotes About Connection

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

I'm afraid that, if I let myself feel ecstatic about being with you, then when you leave me, I won't be able to pull myself back together..

But what if-- I realize that I don't want him to disappear. I may not fully believe he's real; I may not understand why I can hear him speaking to me--but I sort of like it. I like knowing that of all the people in the world, I'm the only one listening to what he has to say. It makes me feel like we've been destined for each other.

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet

You can't grieve something if you don't let yourself get close enough to care.

I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

If you still wonder the true meaning of coordination, synchronization and team work, you have not understood your own body!!!

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.