Quotes About Connection

She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she'd just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would give her back something she'd lost, a missing taste, an intonation gone flat, that ghostly feeling of home, though she was no longer at home anywhere.

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You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back. ~ William D. Tammeus

I've had serious boyfriends over the years, but honestly, it just became easier not to have anyone in my life. People usually bring a lot of baggage with them." "Yeah. But if it's right, I guess their baggage should fit in the closet right next to your own." "It should," she agrees. "And then again, if it's right, it probably wouldn't matter if the fit was a little tight." "Probably not.

No one else looked at her as if she were the answer to every question he'd ever asked.

Is there a girl out there who doesn't want to be looked at the way Mr. Darcy looked at Elizabeth?" ? Grier McAllister

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~ Emily Dickinson

Me too," I say. We sit there in the chair together, kissing like we did when we were sixteen and everything in the world seemed possible. Turns out, it is.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~ Desmond Tutu

Lambert while I'm at it." "She's

doesn't limit itself to a place, but applies to the lives of its people as well. The present, after all, cannot exist without its past. The two are inextricably tied, a circle that must eventually find its point of completion. For my characters here, raised in a county of like and different, the ends of the circle are about to connect, the ensuing collision forever altering the journey

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. ~ Aristotle

She understood then in a way she never had before what it meant to find the one against whom all others would forever be judged. The one for whom there would be no comparison.

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~ Author Unknown

That for the most part, people had the same needs, the same wants, the same desires. They wanted the best for their loved ones and grieved when life brought them short of that.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius

It's just a fact that once we lose our parents and grandparents, no one in our lives will ever love us like that again.

Under his appreciative gaze, she felt beautiful. Powerful in the way a woman feels when a man looks at her with desire in his eyes.

Kissing should be this, an act of intimacy that signals rightness, that prompts an instant internal awareness that says, This is where I belong.

Love is not instant. Infatuation is instant. Love is a thing that begins with the most shallow of roots that reach the depths of our souls only after we've given ourselves up to the helplessness of it. And when it's true love, we are truly helpless.

But there in the middle of the crowded dance floor, his gaze held hers, said things that didn't need words for expression. The message couldn't have been more eloquent.

It's easy to be in love when life is smooth sailing. What deepens it though is riding out the rough waves and finding your way back to what brought you together in the first place.

grounded her, reminded her that sometimes a thread of the past could weave its way into the present.

He turned his face to hers, and she kissed him, nothing soft and introductory, just picking up where they'd left off, two people who knew each other's bodies.