Quotes About Connection

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

Nothing the human can read is more interesting than you. Therefore, when the human picks up a book, magazine, or newspaper, you may best assist him or her by interposing your magnificent Self between the page and humanity.

If a dense human still fails to get the message, reach over and touch the item you intend for them to share, or touch an arm or cheek with your paw.

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

When these pocket computers started getting common, old people like me catastrophized about how bad it was going to be, but we were wrong. It's much worse. We've been looking at each other's faces for a million years. But now you don't see faces anymore. At night on the sidewalks of Toronto people walk around in the dark looking down into tiny lamplit rooms they hold in their hands.

How are you!" Katerina came around her counter to hug me. I stiffened in her embrace. "Are you okay? I worried about you, you know." "About me?" "Of course! Come in the back, I make a coffee." She ushered me toward the rear of the food mall more quickly than necessary, I thought.

we're the only species that looks into its mate's eyes during intercourse? It developed our concept of the other

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

If I gave up sarcasm that would leave interpretive dance as my only way of communicating.

What is the point of sharing your life with someone if you can't communicate with them about the things that matter?

They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.

My love for a child will be greater than my love for an adult because it is a singular love that isn't based on physical attraction, or shared experiences, or the pleasures of intimacy, or time together. It is unconditional, immeasurable, unshakeable.

I know I should have ignored her. I should have called. Many times I almost did. I got as far as picking up the phone. Sometimes I even dialed your parents' number but then I wondered what I'd say to you. We had left it too long. How would we ever get around the silence, which was like an elephant sitting in the room?

People, not places, make a life whole.

The very first child to introduce himself will be the one with the fewest friends.

I've heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don't look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin.

this: I have never met anyone who is so central to my existence that life without her seems incomprehensible, who I care more about than I do myself.

Kinder zu lieben, ist leicht. Sie zu behalten, ist schwer.

she could move Audie, who felt as though he was staring into the depths of a well. All he had to do was fall.

Women think they want a man but instead they want

Children are like time capsules that we shoot into the future, hoping there will still be a world for them to inherit. I don't know if they are chips off the same block, or if one apple has fallen farther from the tree, but what does it matter? They are loved. Longed for. Ours.

You know why I love dogs more than people?" she shouts, everything about her softer. "Feed them and pet them and they'll love you when no one else will.