Quotes About Connection

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

When you love someone, they never die," Delia said. "They're always with you in your heart no matter what. Just as your parents live on in you, Natalie.

Love didn't cause grief but healed it. She

Friendships take just as much TLC as romantic relationships.

For one amazing moment, the entire world made sense. It was as if she understood the meaning of everything. And love was all that there was.

Whiplash chatter. That was his Zoey.

Love just plain hurts sometimes, but we can't let that stop us from loving. Love is the only thing in the world that really matters.

He took hold of her chin with a thumb and forefinger. "Hold still. It will be over in a sec." "That's what she said," Kasha deadpanned. Chuckling, Axel shook his head. "You look all serious and quiet and then you drop these little humor bombs so unexpected that they sail over most people's heads.

Synchronicity. That's Jung, right?" "A series of meaningful coincidences. You're a size fourteen. My jersey number is a fourteen. It's gotta mean something.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home.

Comfort and a vast understanding that love couldn't be killed. They would always love the people they'd lost, but that didn't mean they couldn't love each other as well. Love.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

I loved you with the scientific excuse of the lonely.

The Body As Braille" He tells me "your back is so beautiful." He traces my spine with his hand. I'm burning like the white ring around the moon. "A witch's moon," dijo mi abuela. The schools call it "a reflection of ice crystals." It's a storm brewing in the cauldron of the sky. I'm in love but won't tell him if it's omens or ice.

Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.

was years later, when she was buried in the same grave with him. Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetime's mutual loathing.

Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sustained each other, they had ONE STORY between them and it wasn't at all easy for me or my brother to inhabit it.

Do I often feel conflicted or ambivalent regarding my relationship with this person?

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it.

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.