Quotes About Connection

i survive on intimacy & tomorrow/

You can't fuck somebody into loving you.

Craiceann a shníonn go gléineach thar do ghéaga mar bhainne á dháil as crúiscíní am lóin is tread gabhar ag gabháil thar chnocáin do chuid gruaige cnocáin ar a bhfuil faillte arda is dhá ghleann atá domhain. (Leaba Shíoda)

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

friendship is something you do.

though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.

time is the third party to every relationship.

When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other.

There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.

I'll be the in to your sane.

It's possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people's stories.

Love is not by sight but by mind

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

Playmates share two gifts. You are loveable, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

No friendship is an accident.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are.

Beni anlamal?s?n. Çünkü ben kitap de?ilim, çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz, ya?arken anla??lmaya mecburum.

Ne istiyorlard? senden Selim? Belki sen çok ?ey istiyordun onlardan. Verdi?inin hiç olmazsa küçük bir parças? kadar bir?eyler istiyordun. Sonunda kaç?yorlard?. Hay?r, sen kaç?yordun. Hay?r kaçm?yordun: insana ihtiyac?n vard?. ?nsan? ar?yordun can?m karde?im. Bunda utanacak ne vard??

Beni anlam?yorlard?. Zarar yok. Zaten beni, daha kimler anlamad?.

Beni hemen anlamal?s?n, çünkü ben kitap de?ilim, çünkü ben öldükten sonra kimse beni okuyamaz, ya?arken anla??lmaya mecburum.