Quotes About Connection

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit with,hardly saying a word, and then walk away feeling like that was[the]best time you've ever had

I'll cry with you," she whispered "Until we run out of tears. Even if it's forever. We'll do it together.

You know how it is between sisters in their middle age? that old old friendship, how loose-fitting it is? the comfort and safety in it? how you can let silence lie between you without it taking on any weight? how you can let words out of your mouth without wariness or precision because you know your sister will listen to what's worthwhile and let the rest fall out of her ears into the air? how you can be surly, unreasonable, stupid, in the certainty of her grace?

For a woman, there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Food is a constant flashpoint between mother and daughter. Aroon

She writes better than anyone else about the mother–daughter relationship, in all its thorny, fraught, inescapable complexity.

I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could.

She was saying words she didn't totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me.

This is where I lived – she lived there, too. I could see it in her face. Her eyes. The way she carried herself. In the place between what we wanted and what we had. And this is where all the pain lived.

Family, Love. Forgiveness. Those were powerful things.

You changed me, baby," I told her, stroking her cheek. "I barely recognize who I was before you came into my life. And I don't…I don't want to go back to being that way.

His hand touched my leg and I grabbed it. I held it with both of mine, like he was a lifeline and I needed saving. Or maybe I was the lifeline and he needed saving. Was it possible we could save each other?

How loving Ronan felt like an act of recklessness and at the same time the safest thing I'd ever done. Maybe, I realized, that's what love was. It was being terrified of the leap but being sure of being caught.

She was the miracle I was trying to hold on to.

Save your act for other people. The lies and the show – I don't want it. I want you. Fucked up and crazy. I want you.

Show me something you never show anyone. Give me a piece of your soul, because I just showed you mine and because I need to fucking live on something and I have nothing. Give me something I can live on. For a minute. That's all I want.

Sam. You and me are super fucked up right now, but your mom is family to me and you know that.

We'd been fucking each other for months without touching. And the last few days had this thing between us strung so tightly it was amazing we could move. He was going to wreck me. Break me. And I'd never needed anything more.

It's not as important as you are. Nothing is. When I said my mom would like you that first night we met, it's because I knew you were going to be the most important thing in my life. You are the sun, Lexie. And I'm just trying to stay in your orbit.

She said 'Ethan, you could easily marry a woman who fits into your life. But you need to marry a woman who is your life.

It was him and it was me and it was nothing else.

I wanted to show you the truth of me. And…loving you is a part of that. It's a part of who I am now.