Quotes About Connection

but also seems to include a heightened awareness in people everywhere

He wanted to see this woman writhe in pleasure, wanted to be the only man to cause it. More than anything he wanted her to need him.

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

The Latin word companion means literally "a person with whom we share bread"; so that every company, from actors' guild to Multinational Steel, shares in the significance evoked in breaking bread.

My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched the earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong. My grandmothers were full of memories Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay With veins rolling roughly over quick hands They have many clean words to say. My grandmothers were strong. Why am I not as they?

You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever".

Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

What do you say to furthering our cousinly relationship by a drive in the Park this afternoon?

Fly Dog, fly! I will be your missing eye, and you will be my wings.

If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.

It's a long time that I've loved you. Never, never go away.

marvelled that you could live with a man for years and bear his children, yet remain quite remote from him.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.

Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?

I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.

Human movement is a bridge between solid ground and dreamlike air.

I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.