Quotes About Connection

It had been so long since I'd written, really written, that I'd forgotten what it felt like--how it changed things, shifted everything. I'd forgotten how writing surprises you--how you sit down feeling one thing and come out feeling another--and that I'd never heard my dad's voice in my head like this before, never known I could feel this close to him again, that this letter from him might ever exist. But here it was.

Clifford, I was just saying how there aren't good words for family, for step-half-siblings? How complex family is," Liliana said in her fragile voice. "That's true," Clifford said. "Complicated. Messy. Endless fun." He smiled slightly and looked around the room with an expression I liked-as if the world was enormously absurd, and he sort of enjoyed it and hated it at the same time.

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.

The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret. —SYMMACHUS, 384 C.E.

Most spiritual paths ultimately lead people to the understanding of their own connection to the divine.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

loves was about the people who loved you

he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life

I hope you get the good weather" she said. "And I hope you"ll be very, very happy." As I walked down the winding street people kept smiling at me--first two middle aged women, then a woman with a baby, then a grizzled man in a tweed cap and anorak, then two girls my own age. When a boy on a tricycle beamed at me, I finally understood it was because of my own broad smile.

him. They raised their glasses, and Valentine said a few more

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

Gee Whillakers!" whistled Benjamin. "Think of owning a trick pup and never knowing it!" He scratched Whiskers behind his upstanding black ear, and then behind her floppy white ear. He smoothed her whiskery face. "Think of it," he repeated softly, "Whiskers a trick pup! Me with a trick pup!

Maybe she's looking for us," Maureen would say hopefully. "Maybe!" nodded Paul.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...