Quotes About Connection

No. Because when you love someone, no matter what you tell yourself, it stops being a job. What does it become? Patrick thought for a moment. Revenge.

She watched Peter's face transform as she spoke, like the change of a season. Why hadn't she taken the time before, when she had it, to tell Peter that she understood?

mercenary. Now, I'm wondering why those were ever even goals. We don't need those things to feel whole. We need to wake up in the morning. We need our bodies to function. We need to enjoy a meal. We need a roof over our head. We need to surround ourselves with people we love. We need to take the wins in a much smaller way. And we need to remember this, even when we're no longer in a pandemic.

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

I think it's human nature that those of us who are married cannot rest easy until we find mates for our single friends.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or hte head or even the soul, but in the spaces between any given two people.

What will Dad say?" he whispered. His mother could not possibly have heard him at such a distance, but she seemed to understand his question. "I imagine," she said, stepping into a neat square of the brilliant afternoon, "he'll say, 'Hello, Max.

Just because I get close to something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm special. It just means I am willing to get close to the things that make people uncomfortable.

You see, I tell myself. Here is proof. I've known Christina my whole life. And yes, maybe there are differences between us—socioeconomic, political, racial—but that doesn't mean we can't connect, human to human, friend to friend.

I've always wondered whether she sees what I do when I look at her.

You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams.

Sunnie. Sometimes you got to think about whether you want someone to be a piece of fabric that fits into your life or not. As you sew the strips in, they become a part of what you do, how you think, how you end up. Good or bad, that's something you can never rip out and remake.

She'd Shot A Man & Found A Friend - Maggie Allison

Love's the strongest energy. Katie and I loved each other. We couldn't love each other in my world, and we couldn't love each other in her world. But all that love, all that energy, it had to go somewhere. It went into that baby. His voice broke. Even if we couldn't have each other, we would have both had him. -Adam, Plain Truth

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared.

Someone has said that enemies are just people whose stories we don't know. I see a lot of truth in that. The more other people's stories are hidden from us, the easier it is for us to view them as enemies. But, when we begin to learn their stories, we recognize all we share in common with them and we delight in how the unique beauty of their traditions enriches our own lives.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

Buildings, streets, the economy, the government, even our families, stay together simply because we want them to. Without that will, that desire to maintain, things fall apart.

the city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.

C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever.

back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward when