Quotes About Connection

God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.

I remember how at night I didn't have slow, sweet talks, but merely rushed the children to bed so I could have more time to myself.

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

i don't know what your situation is but i wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but because we're on a little boat for a while and... i'm soul sick. and you're going to see that.

And so the indigenous languages of this place do belong to the people through whom they emerged. But they also carry within them an understanding of where we are and what is required of us all. Each time one of these languages disappears, even if you have never heard it, a great steel door closes forever on an understanding of this place. The

Alexander Morris, lieutenant governor of Manitoba in the 1870s and chief treaty negotiator: "[I wish] to take the Ojibwa by the hand and never let go your hand." We

Is she dead, Mr. Stone Fox? Is she dead?" little Willy asked, looking up at Stone Fox with his one good eye.

Every heart is much the same, We tell ourselves down here, The same chambers fed by veins, The same maze of love and fear.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.

we shall be led as much to the street and the cottage as to the temple and the tower; and shall be more interested in buildings raised by feeling

You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We're all trapped on this earth together.

There was an old joke about a small town: a real small town meant that you didn't have to use the turn signals on your car, because anybody behind you already knew where you were going…

Make tender and awkward sexual advances, not war. ~ t-shirt

Janey. A problem. He liked her, but only for a couple of hours at a time.

THEY SAT LOOKING at the pictures for a few seconds, then Sloan said

phone, then picked it up and put it in

Hold my hand." "What?" "C'mon, hold my hand. He's a 'phobe. Lean your head a little sideways into me, look me in the eyes, and we walk toward the front of the store, taking our time . . ." Lucas said, "Ah, shit," and took Virgil's hand. One of the FBI agents said, watching them, "Oh my God.

smiled and the smile even touched her normally cool eyes. She said, "Lucas. I never had a chance to thank you. You saved my life—you and Dan. You as much as Dan.

They were the kind of people whose unhappiness tended to become your unhappiness, to say nothing of your screaming agony.

After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three, sitting together, passing a joint, and Skye told them about Henry—one of the three knew him—and asked about Pilate. None of them knew him, or had heard about him.

Catrin Mattsson was doing all right. She was still screwed up and admitted it, but drugs and shrinks were moving her around to the place where she could live with herself. She'd become friends with his wife and daughter, and would occasionally drop around for dinner and a chat.

The only difference between dancing and fucking, he said in those days, is that you don't fuck in front of a live band.

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life.