Quotes About Connection

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.

That was when I fell in love with my son, when I understood how insignificant I was, and how marvelous he was, and how one day he'd feel the exact same thing.

The hardest thing to do in talking to a woman was taking the first step, but the most important thing to do was not to think.

Sometime after our third round, Ms. Mori cupped her chin with her right hand, elbow on the bar, and allowed me to light her cigarette, which, in my opinion, was one of the most erotic acts of foreplay a man can perform for a woman.

Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word.

My weakness for sympathizing with others has much to do with my status as a bastard, which is not to say that being a bastard naturally predisposes one to sympathy.

blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior. After

More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.

I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses.

I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved.

blurring the lines between us and them can be a worthy behavior.

Here's to you, Claude, I said, raising my glass to him. Congratulations. For what? he said, raising his own. Now you know what it feels like to be one of us. His laugh was short and bitter. I was thinking the exact same thing.

To avoid talking, we both smoked incessantly and listened to a greatest hits tape of Johnny Hallyday, the sonic equivalent of Ricard Pastis, a taste the rest of the world could not acquire.

Can you love someone you don't remember? Can you love someone you don't know?

These men were better than any real brothers I could have had, for we had chosen each other.

This was the silence my father encountered every day during his prayers, the silence that hundreds of millions heard every day as they beseeched God to say something, anything. He always said nothing, which hardly disabused His legions of fans. For someone who never said anything, God certainly spoke to a lot of people.

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

Am i a photograph you gaze at in moments of weakness? You ordered me off my knees into your arms Wasn't to beg that I knelt; only to see you once from below.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Every Interaction is an Opportunity