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Quotes About Connection

I love you. I love you with every breath, with every thought that's inside me. I've loved every you from the first time I kissed you on that ledge. Even before that.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Because ever since that first day I met you, I've gone to sleep every single night thinking about you, and every morning when I wake, my first thoughts are of you.
~ Mary E. Pearson
A real kiss," he said. "That's what I needed, just one more time.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Every exchange of words between Jase and me seemed like a dance, a step forward, a step back, circling, both of us leading, anticipating, wondering what the next move would be.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Ever since that first day I met you, I've gone to sleep ever single night thinking about you.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I want to pull you close and never let you go.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I want to pull you close and never let you go," he whispered. (pg 224)
~ Mary E. Pearson
We are all stardust and memories.
~ Unknown
He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world.
~ Unknown
Big cities can have big hearts.
~ Unknown
I grip his wrists and lift onto my toes, forever trying to get through the barriers of skin and bones and gravity and relativity, hoping to find answers by crawling inside of him and mending our everythings. Teller pushes back until I'm against the wall once more and all it would take is the tilt of my head for our lips to touch.
~ Unknown
Seated in the embrasure of this window, my lady was separated from Robert Audley by the whole length of the room, and the young man could only catch an occasional glimpse of her fair face, surrounded by its bright aureole of hazy, golden hair.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~ Mary Ellen Chase
There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
Friendship needs no reason!
~ Mary Engelbreit
A constant FRIEND is a thing rare and hard to find.
~ Mary Engelbreit
Friend is a gift you give yourself.
~ Mary Engelbreit
Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside
~ Mary Engelbreit
Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which extends throughout the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.
~ Unknown
At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.
~ Mary Gaitskill
He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.
~ Mary Gaitskill
I wanted to know people. I wanted to love. But I didn't realize how badly I had been hurt. I didn't realize that my habit of distance had become so unconscious and deep that I didn't know how to be with another person. I could only fix that person in my imagination and turn him this way and that, trying to feel him, until my mind was tired and raw.
~ Mary Gaitskill
He realized what had been disturbing him about her. With other women whom he had been with in similar situations, he had experienced a relaxing sense of emptiness within them that had made it easy for him to get inside them and, once there, smear himself all over their innermost territory until it was no longer theirs but his.
~ Mary Gaitskill