Quotes About Connection

We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.

And what, exactly, am I giving as I'm learning to do this giving thing?

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun ... —Robert Frost

replied as she reached

And Laura raised the microphone and said, "Hello, everybody, I'm C.C's daughter.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind

No one ever knows the heart of anyone else

She loved him because he was the reason why.

Sometimes the missing thing is the glue that holds everything else in place.

They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat.

I have been privileged to feel enormous love for my children and that's their eternal gift to me. This love is always there softly glowing inside of me, and only causes pain when I diminish it with expectations.

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.

Stepping outside your comfort zone to reach out can have tremendous payoffs. Whether you are building your network of media contacts, writing an opinion piece for a newspaper or blog, arranging a meeting with your local Congressman, or engaged in a media blitz around your latest paper, you'll generate ripples that can lead to surprising and gratifying results.

It is the professional's responsibility to reach out and make the extra effort to connect with parents who seem resistant to becoming involved.

Miss Pickett...Lucy ~ for the love of heaven, may I call you Lucy? I've saved you from a ghost and a vamp attack. I've seen your naked back, and this marks the second time you've slept in my bed.

Although solving murders and matchmaking ought to be as different as night and day, the thump of excitement in her heart was the same.

This was probably a good time to remember folks really were the same everywhere.

Oh Papa. I always felt like I had a hold on things when there was Papa to turn to.

I'll miss you. If you stay, I'll kiss you. Cause you're my girl, girl.

And what fan wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of Taylor's gap-toothed smile.

I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.