Quotes About Connection

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

Not having the company of books made me feel even more isolated.

The most important thing you can do to increase your effectiveness with middle schoolers is to deepen your connection to God.

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.

No relationship is perfect so just find the right one to go through hell and heaven with.

How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?

Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.

every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

Alone, even in a crowd. Dead, but able to touch and sense the living. Real, but intangible.

You've got sadness in you, I've got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

It is therefore not implausible that there is a connection between the rhythm of the body involved in running and the presence of the brain activity involved in higher cognitive functions.

In a very real way, an author's creations are given over to others, the way a mother sends her children out into the larger world.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.

Tell me a story" is as old as humankind. It's a prehistoric request, going back to when people sat around fires in caves. A novelist's first goal, above all, is to tell a story.

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.

A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

A reader is your partner, a friend, not someone who needs to be impressed. Keep the writing honest, make it come from the heart.