Quotes About Connection

After about twenty years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

It's psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you've laughed.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

I libri sono gli amici più veri,... Ti accompagnano nei giorni felici e in quelli tristi, non ti lasciano mai solo. Tu li abbandoni ma loro sanno perdonarti

when we stop knowing how to use our hands to meet our most basic needs—we become estranged from nature, from the value and meaning of things, and from the empathy that we need to care for one another and our world.

Surround yourself with positive people.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

What was unspoken between us, what need never be explained or said, was that nobody would ever love us again like our mothers did. Yes, we would be loved, by our fathers, our friends, our siblings, our aunts and uncles and grandparents and spouses--and our children if we chose to have them--but never would we experience that kind of unconditional, nothing-you-can-do-will-turn-me-away-from-you kind of mother love.

Was he even planning on coming to meet me? Or did he change his mind at the last minute? Did he decide he liked me better at a distance? That meeting the real me would ruin his fantasy? And what about my fantasy? That there was a real man out there who saw me. A man who couldn't stop thinking about me. A man who made me feel like a woman worthy of being obsessed about.

Scene: wedding day, as father gives away the bride "Off you go, honey." ****

It seems like we've gotten to the point where our experiences, our memories--our entire lives, actually--aren't real unless we post about them online. I wonder if we might miss the days of being unreasonable.

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

He looked into my eyes. "Sara, I wasn't kidding around. You still have my heart. I don't want it back.

chicken, and cinnamon cookies with my name frosted on them. Sometimes you're my therapist, sometimes you're my tormentor, sometimes you're my secret crush. But you're never my dog. And right now, you're my dance partner." He lifts his chin. "Let me see if I can sweep you off your feet.

We have a poor mathematical, as well as a poor intuitive understanding of the nature of coincidence.

I want to throw him down on the bar and climb on top of him like he's my own private Everest.

It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

If there is anything on this earth that I know better than anyone, it is that the ones who give you everything except what matters most are the ones with the deepest wounds. We may never love or be more than this beautiful bond between us but whatever we will ever be it is going to be integral to my life.

I am that somebody who aches to be near you when I am not. I am that somebody who can't stop thinking about you.

When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

Guess what?' Fitz said. 'I don't know,' Jude said. 'What? Narnie smiled?' He glanced at her for the first time. 'When you guys see a Narnie smile, it's like a revelation,' Webb said, gathering her towards him. Jude stopped in front of her and, with both hands cupping her face, tried to make a smile. Narnie flinched. 'Leave her alone,' Tate said. 'I need a revelation,' Jude said. 'And you're the only one that can give me one, Narns.

Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.' And she wept to hear his words.