Quotes About Connection

One can learn much through the thin walls of summer houses.

Sempre há suicídios entre as pessoas que não conseguem dizer o que querem

In my arms, which I realized had grown very strong, I held the former Big Ten star, who was as heavy and meaningful, to me, as our family bear, and I stared into the short distance that separated us from Sorrow.

Idiot Wind." Jack would always remember that song.)

even if my father never came forth to identify himself, Owen told me, God would identify him for me. "YOUR DAD CAN HIDE FROM YOU

I've done all I want to do about me, already," Jenny told her son. "Now I'm interested in other people.

It means touch, basically—almost a hammered kind of touch

Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefühl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ähnelt um dich zu verstehen

Don't you see, Johnny? If he could, he would cut off his hands for you—that's how it makes him feel, to have touched that baseball bat, to have swung that bat with those results. It's how we all feel—you and me and Owen. We've lost a part of ourselves.

was Owen Meany who told me that only white men are vain enough to believe that human beings are unique because we have souls. According to Owen, Watahantowet knew better. Watahantowet believed that animals had souls, and that even the much-abused Squamscott River had a soul—Watahantowet knew that the land he sold to my ancestors was absolutely full of spirits.

With our mothers, we are always alone

The temptation to touch each other, even to bash their shopping carts together, was removed from them, and they all settled into being the kind of friends many old friends become: that is, they were friends when they heard from each other – or when, occasionally, they got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.

You don't have to make a commitment or anything," Emma said. "That you're my best friend is enough of a miracle.

Annileen said you were riding in from the east, the other day. I don't guess you've ever heard of the Lars family?" Ben cleared his throat. "The Lars, you say?

the mystical Force, the energy field all Jedi drew upon for strength, could come in handy.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Nothing draws us closer to one another than the degree to which we face our deepest shame openly in one another's company. Coleridge and Wordsworth dreaded such self-exposure; we adore it. What we want is to feel known, warts and all—the more warts, the better. It is the great illusion of our culture that what we confess to is who we are.

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one!

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.