Quotes About Connection

He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

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.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking. Jonah Griggs takes my hand under the table and links my fingers with his and I know that I would sacrifice almost anything just to keep this state of mind, for the rest of the week at least.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

He knew how it felt to be on the perimeter of relationships, to feel as if you'd never quite belong.

Ain't it a shame the body can't go where the heart lives.

Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.

There's not enough time spend between the sheet's to compensate the breach

Partial kindness breaks the heart...

We are all children until our fathers die.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

You smell like a bar," he said. I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.

Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will--even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

The way you look at me when you think I might be looking your way is one of my favorite things in the world.